Category: Nature

A California man thought he would die when he fell off his fishing boat and into the frigid Pacific Ocean — but a friendly harbor seal showed up in the nick of time and helped get him to safety. Scott Thompson, a sea urchin diver, blamed a lapse in judgment for the mishap that sent…

A swimmer who was fatally mauled by a shark off the coast of Sydney has been named as 35-year-old Simon Nellist who was originally from the UK.

Marine police crews and surf lifesavers search Little Bay in south-eastern Sydney, where a swimmer died on Wednesday afternoon after being attacked by a shark. They later located human remains in the water. The death is the first fatal shark attack in the city since 1963

Simon Nellist, a 35-year-old diving instructor who loved adventure, has been named as the victim fatally mauled by a shark off Little Bay.

Most people wouldn’t dream of entering Northern Territory waterways, but a daring few in Darwin’s rural area are being warned to stop swimming in creeks.

A shark killed a swimmer off a Sydney beach on Wednesday in the city’s first fatal attack in nearly 60 years, causing “catastrophic injuries”, police and ambulance services said. Witnesses told local television they had seen the attack on a swimmer wearing a wetsuit. Another witness estimated the shark was 4.5 metres in size. It…

A shark has tragically attacked and killed a swimmer in Little Bay near Malabar in Sydney. Witnesses describe the shark as four meters long with authorities searching for the remains of the swimmer.