Great White Shark Attacks Australian Teenager by Blasting a Hole Below His Kayak

A great white shark left a hole at an Australian teenager's kayak when it attacked the vessel during race event off Adelaide, Australia, in October.

Recent images that surfaced showed that hole is large enough for the shark to reach the teenager, who fortunately evaded death from the jaws of the shark.

Great White Shark Attack

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Pictures of remnants of a teenager's kayak which was attacked by a great white shark off the Australian coast appeared recently, the Daily Star UK reports on Tuesday, November 15.

The images were based on a GoPro footage taken during a surf ski paddler race off the waters of Seacliff Beach.

In October, 19-year-old Nat Drummond was competing for an event involving a kayak-like surf ski race in the waters of Adelaide when a shark came out of nowhere and bit a hole through his kayak, tossing him into the ocean.

Although Drummond survived the shark attack unharmed, he told reports that he saw a figure of a big shark after he got into the water.

In relation to the incident, shark bites are rare and deaths from sharks are even less common, according to the Smithsonian Magazine.

However, the emergence of the damaged kayak photos suggested the potential danger of kayaking, mainly due to its material vulnerability from a shark bite.

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Australia Shark Attacks

Since 1791, there have been multiple shark attacks recorded by the Australian Shark-Incident Database (ASID).

A total of 237 fatal shark attacks have been reported in different parts of the country, including in the waters off New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania.

Most of these incidents occurred while the victims were either bathing, swimming, or fishing in the water.

Formerly called as the Australian Shark Attack File (ASAF), ASID is considered the main source of shark-bite data in Australia and quantifies both temporal and spatial patterns of human-shark interactions across the country.

The Taronga Conservation Society Australia, which maintains the database since 1984, shows that there are a total of 1,196 shark attacks, which resulted in deaths or injuries, in Australia since 1791.

The latest database suggested that such attacks were either provoked or unprovoked, adding that even a person standing on waistline-level water is also potentially risky.

In addition to great white sharks, tiger sharks and bull sharks, were also on the list of marine predators on the list, published on October 29.

Fatal Sydney Shark Attack

In spite of the relatively high number of shark attacks based on ASID, shark attacks in Sydney are reportedly uncommon because the city has long nets and other deterrents in its coastal waters, according to the BBC.

It is for this reason that the fatal Sydney shark attack on a British man back in February could be considered as rare and possibly the most gruesome for the country this year.

The incident involved the victim named Simon Nellist, who died from the jaws of a great white shark just off the coast Little Bay in east Sydney.

The gruesome details of Nellist's fate became clear after several videos surfaced on social media showing this body cut in half floating in the water.

Nellist was a diving instructor, a member of Sydney's Scuba Diving Social Club, and a regular swimmer at the beach.

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