article_snippet.sent: What was supposed to be a gentle splash around in the shallows suddenly turned into a much scarier prospect when holiday-makers came face to face with a shark in New Zealand on Saturday.
article_snippet.sent: The New Zealand Herald reports that shark sightings have become commonplace around the New Zealand coastline this summer, including close encounters with great white sharks in Auckland.
article_snippet.sent: Two shark attacks left a surfer and fisherman with serious injuries.
article_snippet.sent: In February, a surfer was mauled by a shark off the Southland coast.
article_snippet.sent: Headlines were made around the world in December, when a junior Southland doctor ended up stitching up a junior Southland doctor own wound after being attacked by a shark while fishing near Cosy Nook, off the Southland coast.
article_snippet.sent: In the last fatal shark attack in New Zealand waters, Auckland film-maker Adam Strange, 47, was killed at Muriwai on Auckland's west coast in February 2013.
highlights_snippet.sent: Paddlers get a fright when large shark swims into the shallows .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The last fatal shark attack in New Zealand waters was in 2013 .