Video: Jaws-like scenes at Cabarita as shark chases bleeding victim and his rescuers to beach

"Huge effort but the guys to not only save this kid but put their own lives on the line in the process."

A couple more details on today’s attack on a teenager at Cabarita Beach, site of the WSL’s Tweed Heads Pro a few years back and a place rapidly gaining infamy for the volume of shark swishing around in its warm water and B-grade point.

The sixteen year old was bitten on the right arm and right leg and was choppered to the relatively close Gold Coast Uni hozzy and remains in a stable, as they say, condition. In layman’s terms, kid seems ok, pulse normal, nothing real serious apart from the wound.

“At this stage I’m unsure of the severity of injuries, but I’m told there were traumatic injuries to the right arm and right leg,” NSW Surf Lifesaving CEO Stephen Pearce told the ABC.

First, and unsurprisingly, the chaos following the attack was captured on iPhones, with the shark following the kid and his rescuers to the beach. The shark, estimated to be eight feet long or so, almost beaches itself as it prepares to take another hunk out of the kid.

Unbelievable footage shows the 2 metre plus shark chasing the victim and his rescuers all the way to the shoreline today at Cabarita Headland. Huge effort but the guys to not only save this kid but put their own lives on the line in the process.

 

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Second, it turns out that NSW Shark Smart tagged and released a Tiger shark at Cabarita on Thursday.

So maybe it wasn’t a Great White after all, but a pissed off Tiger looking for a little payback for the hook in its mouth.

Beach is closed for twenty four hours.