A 38-year-old man has died after a suspected shark bite near Rottnest Island, off Western Australia, on Saturday May 16. Police said he was in the water at Horseshoe Reef when the attack occurred around 10am. He was taken by vessel to Geordie Bay, where St John WA paramedics treated him, but he could not be revived. A rescue helicopter was dispatched to evacuate him to the mainland. The ABC also reported a public sighting of a roughly five-meter white shark nearby.
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