A Tasmanian tourist is lucky to be alive after a shark attack in the Whitsundays left her with horrific injuries. A 12-year-old girl was attacked by a shark in the Whitsunday Islands less than a day after a woman was mauled in the same area. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.
Two men bitten in shark attack off Whitsunday ... in the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland on Tuesday. Two patients are being treated at Hamilton Island Medical Centre. Cid Harbour is a popular spot for bareboat charters and private boats off Whitsunday Island, which is about 100 kilometres north of Mackay. She was then placed inside a dinghy and winched up to the helicopter. The 46-year-old woman was swimming from a charter yacht in Cid Harbour at Whitsunday Island when she was bitten on the upper right leg about 5:00pm on Wednesday. "Like so many Queenslanders I was horrified to hear details last night of a shark attack on a Tasmanian tourist at Cid Harbour on Whitsunday Harbour," she said. "We've caught a few, about four so far, all over a metre long, we were just doing normal fishing and that's all we can catch," Darren Chapman said. Two visiting fishermen from Canberra and Lake Macquarie have been out on the water in the Whitsundays all week and said they have seen plenty of sharks. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), South West emerges as hot spot for shark attacks, encounters, Daniel Andrews to hand over phone records, text messages to hotel quarantine inquiry, 'He's invincible': Why Trump's biggest fans turned up to see him without even knowing if he was still contagious, Lewis Hamilton equals Michael Schumacher's win record, Australian Daniel Ricciardo takes first podium since 2018, Three women had organ transplants from one donor. Alistair Raddon and his friend Danny Maggs were on a snorkelling trip in the Whitsundays on Tuesday when they were mauled by the shark. The woman was airlifted by rescue helicopter to Mackay Base Hospital, where she underwent surgery on Wednesday night. Ms Eastwick said the woman was given "immediate pain relief and fluid management" once onboard the rescue helicopter. Another tourist suffered serious laceration to his leg in the attack from the shark. Two English tourists have been attacked by a shark near Airlie Beach in Queensland's popular Whitsunday Islands. #Whitsundays - Two shark bites have been reported in shallow beach water at a location off Resort Drive at 9:29am. "He was able to assist with immediate treatment of the patient and to stabilise the serious haemorrhage that she had.". Two people, including a young girl, have been attacked by sharks in separate incidents in the same harbor in Australia's Whitsunday Islands in the past 24 hours. RACQ CQ Rescue crewman Ben McCauley said the rescue helicopter had been on a beacon search at the nearby town of Proserpine when it was called to the shark attack. "Given how serious her injuries were and how far from shore and from medical help they were, without the rescue helicopter I don't think she would have made it back to the mainland alive. Mr McCauley said the woman had to be pulled from the water and lost a vast amount of blood.
"Can I extend my thanks to the calm professionalism once again displayed by our police, paramedics and other rescue services in dealing with this incident. One man, 28, had his foot bitten off by the shark and the other man, 22, suffered severe calf lacerations.
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The Victorian doctor fatally mauled by a shark while on holiday in the Whitsunday Islands has been remembered as a “bright spark” with a heart of gold. THE tourists were rescued after the terrifying attack off Queensland's popular Whitsunday coast on Tuesday morning local time. Tourist Tegan Cattle was on a day trip to the Whitsunday Islands on Tuesday, but said tour operators didn't tell guests there had been a shark attack nearby. NASA expert identifies mystery object as old rocket, Cruise ships dismantled for scrap metal as pandemic sinks industry, Wallabies, All Blacks draw pulsating 89-minute Bledisloe Cup opener, Wallabies show promise but there is still work to be done after Bledisloe Cup classic, NSW records three new locally acquired cases, alerts issued for shops in Sydney's south-west, Melburnians to 'move more freely' next week but full third step unlikely, Andrews says, Fifty years ago, just before lunchtime, the worlds of 35 families changed forever, No new coronavirus cases in Queensland as Labor, LNP make health and car rego promises, Lightning crashes as West Coast Fever qualifies for Super Netball grand final, If you think you're safe from coronavirus because you're outdoors, think again. Drum lines placed after Whitsundays shark attacks TWO tiger sharks have been caught and killed Queensland’s Whitsunday Islands after a woman and child were attacked this week. They were snorkelling on a ZigZag Whitsundays boat in the Hook Passage when they were attacked around 10.20am. They have now caught and killed 3 tiger sharks in the area of the attack, whether they are … Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) Mackay manager of operations Tracey Eastwick said the woman suffered a significant shark bite to her right thigh and had a smaller wound to her lower right leg. My understanding is that the attacks happened in deeper water off a beach, not on the reef. "Fortunately there was a doctor on scene, Dr John Hadok, who is an emergency department doctor," she said. The FBI thinks it's the former, ‘He loved the ocean’: Family remember missing Esperance surfer as police suspend search, Fake asteroid? "On behalf of the house, can I offer our best wishes and prayers for a speedy recovery to the woman involved.".
It was a very rare occurrence, apparently the last shark attack in the whitsundays was 8 years ago. "The people on scene who got her aboard that yacht and quickly packed the gaping wound to help stem the haemorrhaging undoubtedly saved her life. The woman was pulled out of the water onto a nearby yacht, which happened to have a doctor on board. The company said the incident was quite traumatic for all involved but said they were thinking of the woman and the family at this time. "They're definitely out there, more than people think, you don't know because people don't get bitten very often.". A shark has bitten off a man’s foot in Queensland's Whitsunday Islands. "The shark had taken a huge chunk out of her inside leg and she was bleeding out," Mr McCauley said. "The patient was in a serious condition with major haemorrhage and blood loss and at that time she had altered levels on consciousness and was in a significant amount of pain," she said. Her condition was described as "critical" by a hospital spokeswoman.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk thanked the rescue personnel who attended the incident. A Tasmanian tourist is lucky to be alive after a shark attack in the Whitsundays left her with horrific injuries.
It's believed the woman was on board a Queensland Yacht Charters boat at the time of the incident.
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