Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. Police said the young man of 26, was swimming off the beach of Coral Bay, when a 10ft (3m) tiger shark bit his arm. The attack came a day after a surfer was seriously injured in a shark attack north of Sydney. Shark attacks in Australia, on average about three a year, and this wave of incidents months is unusual. Doctors say the injuries of man are not lethal attacks Thursday and his condition is stable. In attack, on Wednesday, the man was close to Newcastle, 125 km (80 miles) from Sydney.Witnesses believe a great white shark or bull involved. On January 4, survived a shark attack another surfer in the city of Gosford, north of Sydney. In October came a great white shark, a U.S. divers in what is thought in the second fatal shark attack in Western Australia in 12 days. Shark attacks in Australia has caused 27 deaths over the past 22 years.
