Mr van den Enden said there were tips surfers could follow to try and avoid a shark encounter. The 10-year-old was pulled from the 6m boat in Stanley, northwest Tasmania, about 4pm after earlier reports a shark was circling in the area. "Avoid sort of swimming and surfing at twilight hours because … it is quite hard to see what's happening out there," he said. A 10-year-old boy has been dragged from a boat by a shark off the coast of Tasmania prompting fears the area’s predators are becoming increasingly bold in their search for food. "The kid probably handled it better than I thought," he said. "I spoke to his dad who was on the beach watching, and his dad reckoned he saw a shark jump out right next to his kid.". "I was starting to think about heading in and then I saw something in the water just next to the kid," he said. Surf Life Saving Tasmania chief executive Tony van den Enden said shark sightings were not uncommon on the east coast during summer. "The boy's father jumped into the water at which point the shark swam off," they added. Mr Kelly said the family appeared to be okay following the close encounter. GREAT WHITE SHARK attacks another Great White shark, bites it leaving clear imprint of its Jaws. recreational scallop fisherman was fatally attacked by a great white shark near Maria Island, on the state's east coast. Teenager Hannah Mighall survived an attack at the Gardens, also on the east coast, in 2009. Rajesh I 2,088,032 views "Avoid sort of swimming and surfing at twilight hours because … "We were there screaming up to them from the beach to say 'get out' and they didn't pick up on it for probably a couple of minutes.". A Tasmanian surfer has described the panic in the water of his home break after a shark sighting on the east coast on Sunday. Mr Kelly said it was a "pretty frantic" few minutes as beachgoers tried to raise the alarm. "Avoid using areas where you have recreational commercial fisherman working around or if there's a lot of signs of bait fish or fish feeding in the area.". Tom Kelly was surfing when he saw a shape in the water and heard the screams of a teenager who came within mere metres of it. "They've got a track, they'll follow with bait fish or with their prey up and down the east coast of Australia, down Tasmania and in around the Flinders Island area.". Mr van den Enden said there were tips surfers could follow to try and avoid a shark encounter. - Duration: 1:32. "We all got out of the water as quick as we could and I paddled in on the next wave. In 2015, a recreational scallop fisherman was fatally attacked by a great white shark near Maria Island, on the state's east coast. 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They all died in the same week, When the ABC met Michael and William Null it wasn't clear if they were for real or just playing dress-ups. "We do see them around this time of the year," he said. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. "The people around the kid immediately got out because they could hear him but there was a couple of people probably 50 to 100 metres away who couldn't hear us. He was paddling at Shelly Point, Beaumaris, when he spotted the three-metre predator early on Sunday afternoon. "Very, very shortly after he started screaming 'shark!'. The shark that "grabbed" a 10-year-old boy from a fishing boat in north-west Tasmania a week and a half ago is believed to be a great white shark, CSIRO marine scientists say.
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