Coogee Beach shark assault: Shark seen swimming in drone footage at seashore after girl critically bitten

A chilling video captures a shark, believed to be the identical one which’s left a 35-year-old girl in a important situation, at a Sydney seashore following the assault.

Drone footage reveals the shark lurking within the water off Coogee Beach in Sydney’s jap suburbs on Saturday morning.

Steve Denneny had been swimming simply moments earlier and was on the seashore along with his companion and canine.

He heard the shark alarm go off and noticed blood within the water and went to get his drone.

He says he believed he noticed the shark concerned within the attacked on his footage and thinks it was an amazing white, as much as six and even eight meters lengthy.

“It was such a nice day and then to just see it all unfold, it was so horrific,” he instructed 9News.

“For a good half an hour afterwards it was just hanging around.

“It was doing like laps up and down.

“From what I captured it looks like a pretty big shark.”

Denneny lives in Coogee and infrequently movies whales within the ocean, so he thought it was notably “horrific” to see what unfolded.

“Prayers are to the family affected to this,” he mentioned.

“The first thing my partner did was lit a candle and prayed for them.

“You don’t expect sharks in these conditions.”

He mentioned the 35-year-old girl was solely 20 to 30 metres offshore when the incident befell.

“I reckon it could have been waist-high water,” he mentioned.

“It’s just crazy.”

Denneny, who runs One Shot Creative, mentioned he filmed a shark just a few months in the past and was in a position to alert authorities to set off the alarm.

Emergency crews have been known as to the favored seashore within the metropolis’s jap suburbs at about 11.15am after the girl was bitten whereas swimming.

The girl was pulled from the water by lifeguards and members of the general public who gave her first help together with making use of tourniquets.

Randwick mayor Dylan Parker mentioned lifeguards, volunteer lifesavers and locals have been amongst those that paddled out to assist the sufferer.

An off-duty important care physician had stabilised her earlier than paramedics arrived.

The sufferer was taken to hospital by highway in a important situation after struggling critical accidents to her arm and leg.

Ambulance NSW confirmed it handled a lady in her 30s with “significant” arm and leg accidents to St Vincent’s Hospital.

She is in a important situation, a spokeswoman mentioned.

Multiple law enforcement officials have been additionally on the scene serving to.

“This is quite a shocking incident” he instructed 9News.

All the seashores from Bondi to Maroubra have been closed with locals instructed to remain out of the water.