How Sydney’s beaches became a ‘perfect storm’ for sharks
Getty Images There are manifold reasons why recorded shark encounters are rising in Australia’s oceans – but fatalities are relatively rare It’s “extraordinary”, says shark researcher Chris Pepin-Neff: four shark bites within 48 hours, and three of them within a 15-kilometre stretch of Australia’s east coast. On 18 January, a 12-year-old boy was taken to…