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02/07/2022 - Jacquelin Morley - Western Australia

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02/07/2022 - Jacquelin Morley - Western Australia

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WA woman mauled by shark while swimming in inflatable ring near Esperance

A WA woman has been attacked by a shark while swimming alone in an inflatable pool ring just 50 metres from shore at an Esperance beach on Sunday.

The swimmer, aged in her 20s, was rescued around midday by beach-goers at Kelp Beds beach at Wylie Bay after losing consciousness in the water, 9 News Perth reported.

A couple drove the woman to Esperance Health Campus where medical staff were commended for saving her life.

Bitten on her torso, she was airlifted to Royal Perth Hospital on Sunday night where she was in a serious but stable condition.

Shire of Esperance rangers closed the beach after spotting a three-metre white shark nearby.

The area is notorious for shark attacks.

It’s the same spot where Esperance surfer Andrew Sharpe went missing in October 2020.

A much-loved member of the local community, Mr Sharpe was surfing off Kelp Beds break, 15 kilometres east of Esperance, when he was bumped off his board and bitten by a shark.

Others in the water rushed to help him, but Mr Sharpe quickly disappeared in the water.

Esperance local Gary Johnson was scuba diving about seven kilometres off Cull Island on January 5, 2020 this year when he was taken by what was believed to be a great white shark.

Kelps Beds is the same break where 17-year-old surfer Laeticia Brouwer died after being mauled by a shark in 2017.

In 2014, surfer Sean Pollard lost an arm and the other hand in a shark attack at the same site.

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