The man was fishing when he was bitten by a shark, police say.

Leah Stewart, who campaigned for cleaner oceans, has been left critically injured by the very waters she loved, after the shark attack at Coogee Beach on Saturday.

Ms Stewart was pulled from the water on Saturday by 24-year-old Charlie Verco, a three-time world paddleboard champion and off-duty volunteer lifeguard, who had noticed a group of women panicking afte...