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Police: Australian Surfer Feared Dead after Shark Attack

07 March 2025, Australia, Sydney: Gunyah Beach where a woman was believed to be attacked by a shark earlier on 07 March. Photo: Dean Lewins/AAP/dpa
07 March 2025, Australia, Sydney: Gunyah Beach where a woman was believed to be attacked by a shark earlier on 07 March. Photo: Dean Lewins/AAP/dpa
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Police: Australian Surfer Feared Dead after Shark Attack

07 March 2025, Australia, Sydney: Gunyah Beach where a woman was believed to be attacked by a shark earlier on 07 March. Photo: Dean Lewins/AAP/dpa
07 March 2025, Australia, Sydney: Gunyah Beach where a woman was believed to be attacked by a shark earlier on 07 March. Photo: Dean Lewins/AAP/dpa

A surfer is feared dead after being attacked by a shark in shallow water on a remote beach in Western Australia, police said on Tuesday.
A 30-year-old man from Melbourne was reported missing on Monday after witnesses saw a struggle and heard screams at Wharton Beach, a remote area around 800 km (497 miles) from the state capital, Perth.
A surfboard with bite marks was later recovered from the beach, Reuters reported.
Police believe the man was killed during the attack after failing to locate his body.
“The family has been notified. I suspect it will be a recovery of a body if we can find it,” Western Australia Police Commissioner Col Blanch said in an interview with Perth radio station 6PR on Tuesday.
Drone footage shot by a witness captured a shark swimming away from a large cloud of blood close to the shore, he added.
The man's suspected death would be the fourth fatal shark attack in the area since 2017, two of which were suspected to have been caused by great white sharks, which can grow up to 6 meters (20 feet) in length.

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A NASA Spacecraft Will Make Another Close Pass of the Sun

This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP, File)
This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP, File)
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A NASA Spacecraft Will Make Another Close Pass of the Sun

This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP, File)
This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP, File)

A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere.

The Parker Solar Probe made its record-breaking first pass within 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of the scorching sun in December, flying closer than any object sent before.

Plans called for it to attempt that journey again on Saturday. Since the flyby happens out of communication range, the mission team won't hear back from Parker until Tuesday afternoon.

Parker is the fastest spacecraft built by humans, and is once again set to hit 430,000 mph (690,000 kph) at closest approach.

Launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun, Parker has since flown straight through its crownlike outer atmosphere, or corona.

Scientists hope the data from Parker will help them better understand why the sun’s outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface and what drives the solar wind, the supersonic stream of charged particles constantly blasting away from the sun.