South Australia Suffers Second Shark Attack In As Many Weeks

A local Elliston surfer has survived a significant shark attack yesterday on South Australia’s West Coast.

The attack follows the fatal attack on young surfer Khai Cowley who was tragically taken at Ethel Wreck on the Yorke Peninsula just over a week ago. It is the sixth attack in just over six months for the state, two others being fatal.

The attack occurred around two hundred metres offshore, with the surfer suffering a large bite to the arse.

Miraculously he made his own way in and up the cliffs only to brush it off and declining an ambulance.

Last May, 46-year-old teacher Simon Baccanello was believed to have been killed in a shark attack at Walkers Rock beach near Elliston. 

Blacks was the scene of another shark attack in 2000 when 17-year-old surfer Jevan Wright was killed while surfing.