A man who allegedly provoked a shark before he was bitten off the coast of Western Australia was filmed jumping onto a hammerhead for fun six years earlier.
Aaron Moir, who calls himself the Shark Rider , was bitten by a three-and-a-half metre lemon shark while working as a skipper on a charter boat near Varanus Island, 120km west of Karratha, at 8pm on Tuesday night.
Panicked boat crew sailed to Exmouth before the 32-year-old was treated by paramedics for back and leg injuries and taken to Royal Perth Hospital in a lengthy ordeal that lasted 10 hours.
He is now being investigated by the Department of Fisheries, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority and WorkSafe over claims he provoked the animal.
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A close encounter with a tiger shark was caught on film by Perth gym owner
Boxer and Dad of three, Justin Lacey, 39, was snorkeling with his family
Mr Lacey was on dry land with the shark in shallow water only one metre away
The family were just about to go for a snorkel when the big fella rolled in