{"id":50050,"date":"2025-09-08T01:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/50050\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:37:13","slug":"man-dies-after-shark-attack-off-beach-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/50050\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after shark attack off beach in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 2, 2016: The strings hanging off the dorsal fin of this Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) are parasitic copepods. Photographed just breaking the surface off Guadalupe Island; Mexico (Credit Image: \u00a9 Dave Fleetham\/Design Pics via ZUMA Wire)<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"294\">A man has died after being attacked by a shark at Long Reef Beach in Australia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"296\" data-end=\"414\">Police in Sydney said the victim was pulled from the water by other surfers but had sustained catastrophic injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"491\">He has been identified as Mercury Psillakis, a father of one, in his 50s.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"555\">The species of shark responsible has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"614\">Authorities have closed nearby beaches as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"614\">Reporting by Teena Gates<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date with all the latest news on our website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beat102103.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Beat102103.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 2, 2016: The strings hanging off the dorsal fin of this Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,34765,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-50050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dies","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}