Surf skier, 65, mauled by shark

A 65-year-old man was mauled by a shark off Australia’s most populous state on Friday. David Quinlivan was paddling a surf ski near the New South Wales state town of Forster, 300 kilometres north of Sydney, when he was attacked, police said. He was flown by helicopter for emergency surgery to a leg injury. Two weeks ago, a 38-year-old surfer suffered life-threatening injuries when he was attacked by a shark at Port Macquarie, 100 kilometres north of Forster. Three weeks earlier, a 52-year-old surfer was seriously injured off Evans Head, 230 kilometres north of Port Macquarie, in the 11th attack — including one fatality — in five months along the northern New South Wales coast.