Savage Sharks.

T.I. Divers Attacked.

From Our Own Correspondent,

Thursday Is., March 28.

BECHE-DE-MER and trochus swim mers have found sharks troublesome lately. A Saibai boy was brought into hospital a few weeks ago with sharkbite injuries, and recently a lad in one of the Island cutters just missed having his arm torn off, the shark in its eagerness dashing between the boy’s arm and face, inflicting small wounds and a nasty knock in the eye. The boy immediately dropped to the bottom, rested a little, flat on the ocean bed, so as to minimise risk of further attack, and then got to the surface, where his mates, who had seen the incident and had scared the shark away, were wait ing.

One of the onlookers, however, became unnerved, and decided that he would take a job in a shelling boat, where he would not have to do skin diving, for a period. When he came into T. I., the doctor ordered him into hospital for an overhaul before going to sea again; as he had previously complained of chest trouble. The patient next to whom he found himself in the ward was the vic time of the first shark attack!