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Two Australians survive separate shark attacks
AFP - 1 hour 40 minutes ago
SYDNEY (AFP) - - A surfer and a teenage girl survived separate shark attacks in Australia Sunday, just two weeks after a swimmer was believed taken by a large shark in the country's west.
Officials said a 31-year-old surfer shook off a shark and paddled back to shore despite the agony of a giant bite wound to his leg after it attacked him at Fingal Beach on the country's east coast.
"Witnesses indicate that there were a number of dolphins close to the group... and the next minute there was a violent splashing in the water," lifeguard coordinator for northern New South Wales Stephen Leahy said.
"Then the patient realised that he'd been bitten on his leg," Leahy told national news agency AAP.
Rescue helicopter doctor Kang Lim said the surfer was fortunate one of his friends had used the leg rope attaching the surfboard to the surfer to compress the wound and stem the bleeding.
"He was extremely lucky from the location of the bite and the size of the bite, he had an extremely large bite of about 30 centimetres (12 inches)," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
In the second incident, a teenage girl was bitten by a five-metre white pointer shark on the northeast coast of the southern island of Tasmania.
The girl is reportedly in a stable condition in hospital and her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
The attacks come two weeks after a swimmer was presumed taken by a large shark on the country's west coast.
Brian Guest, 51, disappeared while snorkelling south of Perth on December 27 and while his remains have not been found witnesses said they saw flashes of fins and blood in the water at the time he went missing.
Some 194 people have died in shark attacks in Australia over the past two centuries.
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