Shark bites Australian surfer’s board a day after attack
Jul 2, 2015, 9:54 PM
SYDNEY (AP) — Police say a shark bit a terrified surfer’s board near the Australian coastal town where another surfer was mauled a day earlier.
A police statement says the 52-year-old surfer was not injured when the shark bit his board on Friday, leaving teeth marks in the fiberglass, off Lennox Head, north of Sydney.
A 32-year-old surfer, Matt Lee, remained in a critical condition at Gold Coast University Hospital on Friday after a shark seriously injured both legs near Lighthouse Beach, 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of Lennox Head at the tourist town of Ballina.
A Seven Network television news crew in a helicopter filmed what appeared to be a 4-meter (13-foot) great white shark swimming off Ballina later Thursday.
The surfers’ contacts with sharks are particularly unusual given relatively few beach-goers are in the water during the current southern winter.
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