{"id":132092,"date":"2026-06-06T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/spearfisher-killed-in-australias-third-fatal-shark-attack-in-4-weeks\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:34:23","slug":"spearfisher-killed-in-australias-third-fatal-shark-attack-in-4-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/spearfisher-killed-in-australias-third-fatal-shark-attack-in-4-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Spearfisher killed in Australia\u2019s third fatal shark attack in 4 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FILE – A sign is seen at the site of a fatal shark attack at Dee Why Beach in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo\/Mark Baker, File)<\/span>(AP Photo\/Mark Baker, File)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 A spearfisher was killed on Saturday in Australia\u2019s third fatal shark attack in four weeks, police said.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old man was spearfishing with family off Michaelmas Island near the port city of Albany in Western Australia state when he was attacked before noon, a police statement said.<\/p>\n

The man was brought by boat to Albany where paramedics were waiting but he could not be revived, police said. Authorities suspect a 4.5-meter (15-foot) white shark was responsible.<\/p>\n

The spate of three fatalities is extraordinary in a nation that has averaged around three shark deaths a year in recent decades.<\/p>\n

The last fatality<\/a> was on May 24 when 39-year-old spearfisher Michael Jensz suffered unsurvivable head injuries in an attack on the Great Barrier Reef off Australia\u2019s northeast coast. Bull sharks had been seen in the vicinity .<\/p>\n

A week earlier, on May 16, a four-meter (13-foot) white shark fatally mauled<\/a> 38-year-old spearfisher Steve Mattabonni northwest of Albany near Rottnest Island.<\/p>\n

Australia’s only other fatal shark attack this year occurred in January, when a 12-year-old boy died<\/a> in a hospital days after he was mauled by a bull shark in Sydney Harbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– A sign is seen at the site of a fatal shark attack at Dee Why Beach in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo\/Mark Baker, File)(AP Photo\/Mark Baker, File) MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) \u2014 A spearfisher was killed on Saturday in Australia\u2019s third fatal shark attack in four weeks, police said. The 35-year-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5734],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-132092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-associated-press"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132092"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=132092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}