Second shark attack rocks Australia
SYDNEY: police say a shark bit a terrified surfer's board on Australia's east coast where another surfer was mauled a day earlier.
A police statement says the 52-year-old surfer was not injured when the shark bit his board on friday, leaving teeth marks in the fibreglass, off Lennox Head, near Byron Bay.
Surfer Matt Lee, 32 , remained in a critical condition at Gold Coast University Hospital yesterday after a shark seriously injured both his legs near Lighthouse Beach, 10 km south of Lennox Head at the tourist town of Ballina.
A seven Network television news crew in a helicopter filmed what appeared to be a 4 m. great white shark swimming off Ballina later on Thursday.