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Man Airlifted After Suspected Shark Bite Off Waterford

8/12/2026

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A man was winched from a craft and air-lifted to Cork Hospital after a suspected shark bite off Ram Head, Waterford.
Rescue 117 air-lifted the victim while Ballycotton RNLI launched lifeboat Austin Lidbury, the four passengers remaining unharmed as the craft returned to Dungarvan.
Coxswain Eolan Walsh of Ballycotton RNLI said the rescue was a effort and noted it was his first shark-bite incident, recalling a 2018 bite off County Cork.

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A man was winched from a craft and air-lifted to Cork Hospital after a suspected shark bite off Ram Head, Waterford.
Rescue 117 air-lifted the victim while Ballycotton RNLI launched lifeboat Austin Lidbury, the four passengers remaining unharmed as the craft returned to Dungarvan.
Coxswain Eolan Walsh of Ballycotton RNLI said the rescue was a effort and noted it was his first shark-bite incident, recalling a 2018 bite off County Cork.