Map shows shark attacks in 2024 after rugby player mauled to death

There person been much than 60 reported shark attacks successful 2024.

Sharks, successful peculiar large whites, similar to inhabit lukewarm waters, with California, South Africa, Japan, Australia and New Zealand listed arsenic peculiar hotspots for the species.

So acold this year, 17 radical person been fatally attacked by a shark – with California, Australia and New Zealand suffering the astir fatalities, according to Tracking Sharks.

Earlier today, a rugby subordinate was mauled to decease by a shark disconnected the seashore of New Zealand.

Jade Kahukore-Dixon, a promising 24-year-old rugby player, had been diving disconnected a vessel successful the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, connected Tuesday.

Emergency services were called to the country and rushed Jade to infirmary wherever helium unluckily succumbed to his injuries.

A constabulary spokesperson said: ‘Emergency services were called astir midday, pursuing reports the antheral – who had been diving disconnected a vessel – had been critically injured.

‘He was rushed to Chatham Island Hospital, but has since died.’

Jacky Dixon, Jade’s dad, remembered his ‘much loved’ son.

He said: ‘I couldn’t judge it.

‘I kept picturing him erstwhile helium was little. I’m not going to person my son.

‘He would bash thing to support his family. He was an astonishing boy, a precise overmuch loved subordinate of the family.’

Jade’s begetter told of his son’s emotion for sportfishing and diving, but this wasn’t his archetypal brushwood with a shark.

Four years ago, Jade narrowly escaped a shark onslaught aft trapping his ft nether a stone beneath the sea’s surface.

His dada continued; ‘His mate was timing him and thought ‘nah he’s gone down for excessively long.’

‘His mate jumped in, swam down determination and Jade’s ft was stuck nether a rock.

‘He couldn’t get retired and his mate freed his ft and got him up and saved his life.’

Jade was a ‘well-known’ rugby subordinate successful the Chatham Islands area. He was listed arsenic 1 of the island’s outstanding young players successful 2018.

Monique Croon, Chatham Islands mayor, said the assemblage is successful ‘shock’ aft the quality of Jae’s death.

She said: ‘He’s a section boy. He’s well-known, well-liked and this volition beryllium beauteous devastating for our commercialized divers.

‘It’s the biggest hazard – the biggest fear.’

New Zealand is recognised arsenic 1 of the world’s hotspots for large achromatic sharks, with the taxon recovered successful the northbound and southbound of the country.

Back successful 2021, the Department of Conservation issued a informing aft astatine slightest six large whites were spotted disconnected New Zealand’s northbound island.

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