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 …
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A surfer gets in need in the water and disappears. Then his surfboard is found - with bite marks. The police in Down Under no longer have any hope of finding the man alive.
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…
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