Latest NBN NewsMid North News
Couple filmed dolphins on GoPro moments before deadly shark attack in NSW
A young couple from Switzerland were filming dolphins in the water off a New South Wales beach when a shark attacked them, killing a woman and leaving a man with serious injuries as he tried to fight it off.
About 6.30am, emergency services were called to a beach at Crowdy Bay near Port Macquarie – an unpatrolled beach known to be a shark hotspot.
Bystanders from a nearby campsite provided aid to the victims before paramedics arrived but the woman, believed to be aged 25, died at the scene.
The woman’s boyfriend, a 26-year-old man, was airlifted to John Hunter Hospital with serious injuries.
He remains there today in a serious but stable condition.
Ambulance Superintendent Joshua Smyth praised a bystander who applied a makeshift tourniquet to the man’s leg, saying they “potentially saved his life”.
