Locals at a popular beach in Western Australia cried “get out of the water” in a desperate attempt to warn swimmers away from a big shark that was just meters away.
On Sunday, worried witnesses on a neighboring road in Dongara, north of Perth, noticed the shark in shallow water at Grannies Beach in Port Denison.
A 16-year-old girl was murdered by a bull shark while swimming with dolphins in the Swan River in north-west Perth one day earlier.
Can anyone confirm if Dongara (WA) has a shark net? If not, this is the height of idiocy and luck.
Rob Paxevanos published this on Saturday, February 4, 2023.
Facebook-posted footage of the encounter shows the shark steadily swimming closer to shore while people on a pier yell to beachgoers.
‘Shark! Those in the way of the predator were screamed at to leave the water.
As the shark continues to inspect the shoreline, the swimmers, who were mere meters away, begin to swim back to shore.
In the clip, a boy exclaimed with laughter, “You’re dinner.”
On Tuesday morning, a monstrous tiger shark was observed in the region, however the shark’s identity has not yet been determined.
There is a large tiger that frequents that location. See it frequently,’ a Facebook user said beneath the video.
Several social media users were quick to defend the shark.
One user remarked, “It’s just a tiger shark that was just cruising around.”
Another user added, “This probably happens more often than we know and just happened to be captured on camera.”
It is the risk we assume by entering their ocean.
The meeting occurs just one day after the terrible death of a teenage girl who was mauled by a bull shark in the Swan River.
Stella Berry, 16 years old, was with friends on the Swan River in North Fremantle on Saturday when she spotted a school of dolphins and jumped into the water.
Moments later, witnesses heard her screams as a shark latched onto her leg. She was then retrieved from the river with catastrophic injuries and died at the site.
Paul Robinson, Fremantle District Acting Inspector, stated, “It is an extremely traumatic event for everyone involved and everyone who knew the young girl, so I will not discuss the severity of her injuries.”
It is uncommon for a shark to be thus far downstream in a river.
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