Four shark attack within 48 hours along New South Wales coast

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Four shark attacks in New South Wales within 48 hours have led to the closure of beaches. Three of the attacks were in Sydney with a young boy and a man in his 20s both in hospital with serious injuries. This morning's attack happened about 400 kilometres north of Sydney at Point Plomer just north of Port Macquarie.

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00:00The 39-year-old man was surfing here at Point Plumber where he was attacked by what's believed

00:07to have been a bull shark. Now the shark bit through his wetsuit and his surfboard. He's

00:12managed to paddle himself to shore where he was quickly driven to Kempsey District Hospital.

00:17He was treated there in a stable condition and has since been discharged. Lifeguards say while

00:23he only suffered lacerations to his leg, he's otherwise extremely lucky. They've returned

00:29here to warn camp goers about the sighting. There's also drones in the sky keeping an eye out for that

00:36shark. Campers here say they saw a number of sharks shortly before the attack. We spoke to one traveller

00:44who paddled out to warn the other surfers. Guy's mate came down and told us that his mate

00:50been hit by the shark up here. So yeah, told all the guys out there. Most of them didn't care,

00:56stayed out there. Yeah, my brother stayed out there. But yeah, a few people came in.

01:02This is the fourth shark-related incident in just three days and experts say the additional sightings

01:08might be because of that wild weather we saw over the weekend, stirring up nutrients and attracting

01:14bait balls and with them sharks.

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