Esperance shire president Ron Chambers said ... His group has long called for stronger state government action to prevent shark attacks. They believe if a shark is hanging around a popular beach ...

A surfer is missing after a shark attack at a popular beach in Western Australia's remote south-east. The surfer was spotted in distress at Wharton Beach, about 775 kilometres south-east of Perth just ...

WAtoday understands several people witnessed the attack at Wharton Beach in an incident that dragged on for minutes.

Esperance has been the location of four of the state’s last seven fatal shark attacks, with locals in the area calling for more to be done to mitigate the risk of the predators interacting with ...

The incident happened on the state’s south coast about midday on Monday, about 60km east of Esperance. Surf Lifesaving WA issued an alert saying a possible shark bite incident had been reported ...

A surfer who was attacked by a shark off the coast of Australia ... The reported attack took place off Wharton Beach in Esperance, a town in southwestern Australia. Police have recovered a ...

"As a community within Esperance, we've been through this before," Taylor said. "It hurts a lot." There have been three fatal shark attacks in the region since 2017, ABC reports, when a 17-year ...

approximately 60km east from Esperance, about 12.10pm AWST on Monday after reports of a possible shark bite incident. Witnesses recalled seeing a massive shark attack the surfer in chest-deep ...

Mr Payne’s gruesome death is the latest in a string of shark attacks in Western Australia in recent years. Esperance and its surrounding beaches have been the site of four of the last seven ...

A surfer is presumed dead after a suspected shark attack off the coast of Wharton Beach in Condingup, Western Australia.