A shark mauled a boy swimming in Sydney Harbor on Sunday, leaving him in a critical condition with serious leg injuries, authorities said, marking at least the third shark attack globally in less than ...

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When a Monterey County woman died in a shark attack off Pacific Grove in late December, it was the 17th such fatality in 75 years off the coast of California. Most of those incidents involved white ...

Authorities confirmed Thursday that Erica Fox, 55, a swimmer who was found dead last month after a swim in Monterey County, was killed by a shark. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner identified Fox ...

Erica Fox, 55, was killed in a shark attack off Lovers Point in Pacific Grove on Dec. 21, 2025, the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office confirmed on Jan. 8, 2026. Jean-Francois Vanreusel A Monterey County ...

After a shark attack injured one of their own nearly three years ago, members of the Kelp Krawlers — who swim weekly around Lovers Point in Monterey County — began searching for something that might ...

A New Zealand-based fishing site has shared footage showing a great white shark rising from the depths to attack what remained of a smaller hooked shark. “Up close and personal with the King of the ...

Tanveer Dhillon had a close encounter with a great white shark while diving off the coast in Australia on Sunday, Dec. 21 XV STUDIO / 500px/Getty Diver Tanveer Dhillon, 39, has spoken about how he ...

A surfer avoided injury after being attacked by a shark Monday morning at Marin County’s Dillon Beach, officials verified Tuesday. The attack occurred around 9 or 10 a.m. near the mouth of Tomales Bay ...

The Lovers Point area, where police say a missing swimmer was likely the victim of a shark attack on Sunday, is the same area where two shark-related incidents occurred in 2022, according to the ...

A missing swimmer in Monterey Peninsula was identified by eyewitnesses Monday as multiple area agencies continued, and then later suspended, their search on Lovers Point in Pacific Grove. Just after ...

Authorities in Monterey County on Sunday night confirmed that two people reported seeing a possible shark before a swimmer disappeared off the coast of Pacific Grove earlier that day. Just after noon, ...