A Man Dies As A Result Of Being Injured As A Result Of " Shark Attack" Off Hawaii Beach

Shark illustration. (Wikimedia Commons/Alexander Vasenin)

JAKARTA - A man died as a result of being injured by a "sung shark attack" off the coast after being rushed to hospital at the end of last year.

The incident occurred on December 30, 2023 off the coast of Maui, Hawaii, United States, according to local authorities.

It was said that the police responded to an emergency call for an incident at around 11:19 a.m. local time in the Jalan Raya Hana area, Paia.

By boat, officers took a 39-year-old man to the beach injured as a result of a "meeting with sharks", police said.

After taking the man to the beach, first aid officers took "saving lives" until medics arrived to take him to the Maui Memorial Medical Center, according to information issued.

The man later died of his injuries, police said. Later, authorities identified the victim as the Jason Carter of Haiku in an update a day later.

Previously, researchers had warned of a possible increase in shark attacks in Hawaii from October to December, according to the Water Resources Division, part of the Department of Land and Natural Resouces of the State of Hawaii.

It is known, shark attacks, especially fatal ones, are rare. On average, sharks kill five people per year in an unreasonable attack, CNN previously reported. Possibility of being fatally attacked by one of the carnivorous fish is less than 1 in 4 million, according to the International Shark Attack File. Experts attribute many shark bites to case misidentifiables, particularly in low visibility waters.

According to Hawaii State Department of Land and Natural Resouces website records, the last fatal shark "meeting" in Hawaii occurred when a person who was snorkeling was killed in Maui on December 8, 2022.

Throughout the past year there have been seven attacks, apart from the latest. The identified types of sharks include tiger shark, galapagos shark, blacctip react shark and cookies.

In addition to surfing, those who were victims of shark attacks were swimming or middle boarding, according to the site's data.