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A man was airlifted to hospital after a shark attacked him while he was freediving at Mdumbi Beach in the Eastern Cape on Monday. National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) operations manager Bruce Sandman said they were notified about the shark attack at around 14:00. 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