Shark spotted near swimmers at Dongara beach in WA a day after 16-year-old dies from shark attack
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Terrifying moment a massive shark heads for swimmers on a crowded beach just days after a teenage girl was mauled to death.
- Potential tiger shark spotted near popular beach
- Dongara’s swimmers ran ashore for safety.
- Just one day after a bull shark killed a 16-year-old
A huge shark just meters from bathers on a popular beach in Western Australia prompted desperate warnings from locals chanting ‘out of the water’.
The shark was seen in swallow water at Grannies Beach in Port Denison by concerned witnesses on a nearby road in Dongara, north of Perth on Sunday.
A day earlier, a bull shark killed a 16-year-old girl while she was swimming with a pod of dolphins in the Swan River, northwest of Perth.
A possible tiger shark (pictured) was spotted in shallow water off Grannies Beach in Dongara, Western Australia on Sunday, a day after a shark killed a 16-year-old in Swan Lake.
Pictures of the encounter posted on Facebook show the shark slowly swimming closer to shore, as people standing on a pier shout to bathers.
‘Shark! Get out of the water,’ they yelled at those in the predator’s path.
The swimmers, who were only a few feet away, begin to run back to shore as the shark continues to scan the shoreline.
“You are dinner,” one boy said and laughed at the clip.
The shark has yet to be identified, however a monstrous tiger shark was seen in the area on Tuesday morning.
‘There is a big tiger that comes there regularly. See it all the time,’ one Facebook user commented below the video.
Some social media users were quick to jump to the shark’s defense.
“It’s just a tiger shark I was walking past,” one user wrote.
“Probably more going on than we know, it was just caught on camera,” another user commented.
It is the risk we run when we enter its ocean.
Locals shouted at the swimmers, sending them running to safety on land (pictured)
The encounter comes just one day after the tragic death of a teenage girl in the Swan River after being attacked by a bull shark.
On Saturday, 16-year-old Stella Berry was with friends on the banks of the Swan River north of Fremantle when she saw a pod of dolphins and jumped into the water.
Moments later, bystanders heard his screams as a shark clung to his leg and he was pulled from the river with serious injuries and died on the scene.
“This is an extremely traumatic event for everyone involved and everyone who knew the young woman, so I will not go into the scope of injuries,” Fremantle District Acting Inspector Paul Robinson said.
“It’s unusual for a shark to be this far out in the river.”