Stranded on a rusty piece of sunken ship, these two teenage girls were forced to watch helplessly as two sharks circled them for 40 minutes off a NSW beach.
The girls, who regularly swim out to the sunken ship known as The Wreck, were horrified to see a shark, followed shortly after by a much larger predator, when they had clambered on to the structure.
Caitlin Robinson and her friend Jett Coates had swum out to the popular spot which is just 50m off Byron Bay's main beach and were about to jump back into the water when they noticed a shark.
A nearby surfer heard the girls cry out and attempted to save them but a shark started swimming towards him so he went back to shore to raise the alarm.
She said at one point the smaller shark jumped over part of the wreck, while the larger one - which was "bigger than a Malibu surfboard" - kept swimming beneath them.
After a gruelling 40 minutes on the wreck, lifeguard boats rescued the girls.
There had been 32 shark sightings and one attack in the Byron Bay area in the past six weeks.
Everything from great whites, tiger sharks, makos, bronze whalers and bull sharks had been sighted.
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Fortunately these were two lucky girls...Any kind of shark warning should not be taken lightly...We've had a few sightings over here, and automatically beaches were shut down, and patrolled so noone could go near the water...
I,m really glad the girls are ok! That must have been terrifying for them out there!
i read that in the news paper yesterday actually and one of the girls asked "if sharks could jump?"- well the answer is yes! lucky they didnt- the sharks couldnt get close enough because there was shallower water around the submerge part of the ship!
And it took 40 minutes to resuce them because the surfers had to go and get police to raise the alarm because that beach isnt patrollled year round.
And it took 40 minutes to resuce them because the surfers had to go and get police to raise the alarm because that beach isnt patrollled year round.
QUOTE (aussiemermaid @ Nov 25 2007, 02:30 PM) 
i read that in the news paper yesterday actually and one of the girls asked "if sharks could jump?"- well the answer is yes! lucky they didnt- the sharks couldnt get close enough because there was shallower water around the submerge part of the ship!
And it took 40 minutes to resuce them because the surfers had to go and get police to raise the alarm because that beach isnt patrollled year round.
And it took 40 minutes to resuce them because the surfers had to go and get police to raise the alarm because that beach isnt patrollled year round.
That is freaky! It almost sounded like a mother shark and her baby, teaching it to hunt.
Must be pretty scary encountering an animal like that, especially in it's ideal enviroment
Sharks are going to be a real problem around Byron Bay and along the east coast. Apparently we've been having un-seasonally cool water temperatures, which sharks love.
Kinda gives me the heeby-jeeby's after that woman was killed last year at Stradbroke Island.
Kinda gives me the heeby-jeeby's after that woman was killed last year at Stradbroke Island.
that's some scary stuff those porr girls!
Skary!
Whoaaa!! Cant imagine the fear those girls had. Tho when they had heard of sharks being there, that should have been a sign to stay away. I'm glad they are all right. I'm glad we dont have sharks in oklahoma.
I'm glad they're ok. They would have been very scary. I bet they won't be doing that for a while.
*plays jaws team song*
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