Shark kills Australian kitesurfer in New Caledonia

Shark kills Australian kitesurfer in New Caledonia

A West Australian man holidaying in New Caledonia has been killed in a shark snare. 

The 50-year-old man is recognized to have been kitesurfing when he fell into the water and was savaged by the shark. 

It is the second savage assault in the South Pacific region in six months, powers said. 

"The man in his 50s was kitesurfing inside the reef at Koumac. He fell and was eaten," said Nicolas Renaud, pioneer of the archipelago's marine salvage coordination focus, said. 

The salvage focus at Noumea got the sadness call at 3.48pm neighborhood time, 12.48pm Perth time. 

The guest said one of their accomplices had endured through a heart strike after he was nibbled by a shark. 

The unidentified man was out with two or three distinct individuals on a sailboat who raised the alarm. 

The mishap was exchanged to a salvage watercraft around 50 minutes after the assault and recuperated to Koumac to a holding up rescue vehicle. 

He was announced dead around 5pm neighborhood time. 

"He persisted through a critical eat to the thigh from an imperative shark. We don't know for the minute what species it was," Mr Renaud said. 

Near to each day paper Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes reported the sailboat group gave emergency treatment while they sat tight for rescuers. 

The man is recognized to have been holidaying on Koumac for around 10 days. 

The last deadly shark strike in New Caledonia, a French region east of Australia, was in April, when a lady was murdered on a shoreline on Poe in the west of the island bunch. 

There were 98 shark ambushes internationally a year earlier - the most confusing number ever recorded, by at the University of Florida, which has been social event information since 1958. Six of the assaults were deadly. 

Theories on the expansion merge rising water temperatures acknowledged by environmental change taking off sharks change their slants, the El Nino air arrangement, which was especially genuine a year back, and the expanding comprehensiveness of watersport