The 64-year-old was about 200 metres off the shore at Elliston when he was attacked on Tuesday afternoon.

The body of Logan Steinwede was discovered by his grandparents on November 6, just weeks after the promising surfer celebrated his 20th birthday on October 1.

Well-known competitive surfer Max Marsden was surfing with a friend at a popular remote beach in Western Australia when a shark attacked him, bitting his arm.

Surfers were almost knocked off their boards as playful dolphins weaved the perfect conditions on the east coast.

Mike Coots, 43, took a series of fascinating photographs of the Great White sharks swimming just yards away from him in the waters off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico.

Tobias Moran led a charmed life as the surfer boy husband of a wealthy Perth woman in her luxury beach shack where police handcuffed and deported him back to Sydney charged with murder.

Australian surfer Owen Wright has beaten two-time Brazilian world champion Gabriel Medina for the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics.