An 11-year-old boy bitten by a shark while snorkelling off the coast of Western Australia has a long road to recover to get back home to Tasmania. 9News
Archie Blake was attacked while snorkelling in waters off Kurrajong Campsite in the Cape Range National Park near Exmouth on Saturday afternoon.
It was supposed to be a holiday of a lifetime for the family, planned over four years and delayed and cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a family friend.Archie Blake was attacked while snorkelling in waters off Kurrajong Campsite in the Cape Range National Park near Exmouth on Saturday afternoon, April 29, 2023."We dragged the boy up further onto the beach," he said.
He'll undergo more surgery in the coming days but for now the Blakes are trying to figure out how to get the rest of the family more than 1000 kilometres from Exmouth to Perth, and then four times that distance back to Tasmania. "While on the trip of a lifetime, 11-year-old Archie was mauled by a shark in remote Western Australia He has been flown to Perth via RFDS where he is undergoing surgery.An 11-year-old boy is recovering in hospital after he was bitten by a shark while snorkelling off the coast of Western Australia.
"Accomodating the family of six near Perth hospital won't be cheap and then getting Archie, the family and all their gear home to Tasmania is going to be a costly exercise.""The shark response unit is undertaking inquiries and those beaches or those waters have been closed," he said, on Sunday.An 11-year-old has been rushed to Exmouth hospital after being attacked by a shark this afternoon.
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