Andre de Ruyter was critically injured in a shark attack at North Steyne Beach in Australia on Monday, Jan. 19 Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025.

Coffs Harbour, Australia — It was just before noon when Nathaniel Woodcock returned to the beach with fresh batteries for his drone. It was the height of the Australian summer, and the 21-year-old was ...

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The incident occurred on Australia's Mid North Coast on Tuesday, Jan. 20 Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has previously appeared in The U.S. Sun, National World, ...

Four shark attacks have occurred since Sunday in Sydney, Australia, prompting the closure of several beaches in an extraordinary situation reminiscent of what transpired on Mexico’s Pacific coast in ...

Many of the closed beaches were in Sydney, the site of three of the attacks. By Laura Chung Reporting from Sydney, Australia Dozens of beaches in eastern Australia were closed on Tuesday, after four ...

Australian officials are ramping up drone patrols after four shark attacks over two days around New South Wales, an unusual spate of violence that left three people injured, two of them critically. In ...

Jan. 19 (UPI) --A surfer was bitten by a shark in waters off Sydney on Monday evening, the second person to suffer critical injuries in a shark attack near the Australia's largest city in little more ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man and boy were critically injured and another boy had his surfboard bitten during three separate shark attacks in Sydney in just over 24 hours, police said on Monday.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man and boy were critically injured and another boy had his surfboard bitten during three separate shark attacks in Sydney in just over 24 hours, police said on Monday.

An 11-year-old boy was fortunate to have emerged unscathed Monday after a shark attacked his surfboard, knocking him into the water. The boy was surfing with his father at Dee Why Beach north of ...