A 31-year-old male diver was injured in a shark attack off Tasmania’s coast on Sunday morning, authorities reported, marking the latest incident in a series of shark encounters across Australian waters this year. The diver was approximately 50 metres offshore near Adventure Bay on Bruny Island when he was bitten around 9:10 a.m. local time (2310 GMT on Saturday) by what officials believe was a two-metre broadnose sevengill shark.

According to Police Inspector Darren Latham, the diver managed to return to shore with the assistance of fellow divers. The victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries to his forearm and was airlifted to a hospital in stable condition. Authorities indicated that no further sightings of the shark had been reported in the remote area, which consists largely of wilderness and protected land and lies about a one-hour flight from Melbourne, some 445 kilometres away.

This attack follows several recent shark incidents in Australia. In June, a man was fatally attacked while fishing off Western Australia’s coast, and earlier the same month, a 35-year-old woman was critically injured in a shark attack in Sydney, prompting safety reviews at popular beaches. May also saw two fatal attacks: one involving a man on the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland and another near an island off Perth in Western Australia.

Earlier in the year, numerous east coast beaches were closed following four shark attacks occurring within the span of two days in January. While shark encounters remain relatively infrequent, data from the Australian Shark Incident Database analyzed by Reuters indicates a gradual increase in reported incidents. Over the past decade, Australia has averaged nearly 29 shark-related encounters annually, rising from about 16 per year during the 2000s.