Man, 27, attacked by shark and evacuated off boat near the Irish coast

Noora Mykkanen | Senior Live News reporter Published August 13, 2026 7:31am Updated August 13, 2026 7:42am To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A man who was bitten ‘to the bone’ by a shark in the Irish Sea said he wasn’t sure he was going to make it out alive. The alarm was raised in the waters off Ireland’s County Waterford on Tuesday afternoon after reports that a shark had mauled a man. The man, who has since been named as angler Sebastian Achim, 27, revealed how the animal managed to bite him in the calf of the deck of their boat after being hauled on board. He was part of a five-strong crew of the small vessel, which was in the waters around four miles off Ram Head, Ardmore, on the southeast coast of Ireland. S