Dozens of people were evacuated from the water off South Stradbroke Island after a number of sharks were spotted not far from shore.
The police chopper activated sirens to alert surfers.
“Just had the sirens and all that going on making a bit of a ruckus we didn’t really know what was going on until everybody started running out of the water”
Witnesses believe one large beast was a tiger shark around four metres long.
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