Overview
- A 12- or 13-year-old boy was bitten near Shark Beach in Sydney Harbour on Sunday and remains in intensive care after police applied tourniquets and performed CPR following his friends’ rescue efforts.
- On Monday evening, a surfer in his 20s was bitten on the leg at North Steyne in Manly and was taken to Royal North Shore Hospital in critical condition.
- Earlier Monday, an 11-year-old at Dee Why Point escaped injury when a shark took a 15 cm bite from his surfboard, which fisheries officials assessed as likely from a bull shark.
- Authorities suspect a bull shark in the harbour attack but have not confirmed the species, with police and fisheries conducting ongoing identification and patrols by drone and jet ski.
- Northern Beaches ocean sites are closed and police have urged the public to avoid murky harbour and river waters; media reports of the boy’s amputations have not been confirmed by officials.