Man rescued after shark bites kayak

BRISBANE: A police boat rescued a man after a shark bit the back off his kayak and left him sinking off the Australian coast, police said. The 39-year-old man made an emergency phone call from his damaged craft on Sunday in Moreton Bay off Brisbane, a police statement said. Brisbane water police retrieved the man on Sunday afternoon. He was uninjured “although quite shaken and glad to be out of the water”, the statement said. The man had been paddling with eight friends to an island when his kayak was attacked 8km from shore.