US EditionSurfer feared dead in shark attack after board with bite marks retrieved
- A missing surfer is feared dead after a shark attack at Wharton Beach in Western Australia.
- Police reported that a 30-year-old Melbourne man was seen in distress before disappearing.
- Authorities retrieved his board, which showed clear bite marks, but the body remains missing.
- Drone footage captured a shark fleeing from a blood cloud near the shoreline before the beach was closed.
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A 37-year-old surfer, Steven Payne, is missing off Wharton Beach, in Western Australia, and is feared to have been attacked by a shark. The only trace found so far is his surfboard, recovered with obvious bite marks. “Our searches did not allow us to find the body,” said the police, who are investigating the disappearance of the man, which occurred about 90 kilometers east of the regional center of Esperance. According to testimonies, Payne was …
Surfer missing in Western Australia ‘taken by shark’, police confirm
SYDNEY, March 12 — A surfer missing in Western Australia was “taken by a shark”, police said, after search teams pulled a board scarred with “bite marks” from the water. The man was mauled by a shark while surfing at a remote beach in Western Australia on Monday, police said, in the country’s fourth reported fatal attack in recent months. As a fruitless search wrapped up on Tuesday evening, Western Australia Police Force senior sergeant Christop…
Surfer Killed By 'Massive Shark' In Surprising Attack
The Sports Movie With An Insanely Underrated Cast (1:14) A man was presumably killed by a shark in Western Australia on Monday and has now been identified, according to multiple outlets.The Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Canberra Times say that the missing individual was 37-year-old Steven Jeffrey Payne. Authorities in the area explained that they were unable to find Payne's body and that their search is now a recovery instead of a …
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