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Unlucky 13th June for Coggee Swimmer who swam close to the shore and between the flags
It is rather unusually warm sea is around 19 degrees and whales are playful as well as dolphins who came into little bay during last week …
The calm, protected waters inside the bay are often used by pods for foraging and resting.
According to little bay swimmers there was a shark outside the Litttle Bay on Friday
On Saturday morning several whales swam past very close to the shore
Heaps of whales were swimming past Clovelly bowling club in the afternoon
Eerily, After 11 pm Coogee beach was empty as was Clovelly and other beaches due to the shark attack
Drones were in use at 14 locations around the state on Saturday but not at Coogee. SLSNSW said additional drone surveillance had been organised for Bondi and Bronte beaches on Saturday and Sunday, with further flights in the area to be assessed.
Moments after a woman was pulled onto the sand of Coogee Beach with severe wounds to her left leg and arms, a three-metre shark was swimming languidly in the clear water metres from shore.
Stephen Denneny was sitting on Coogee Beach’s rainbow steps when they heard a woman screaming, “shark!”
Denneny ran to his home nearby to collect his drone.
“I wanted to find the shark, to keep an eye on it and make sure we knew where it was heading,” Denneny said.
His drone captured the shark in the shallow water and dappled sunlight, as it slowly swam laps of the bay. The footage shows a patch of dark water that Denneny said was most likely blood, marking the location of the shark attack about 30 metres from shore.
As Denneny’s drone hovers over the shark, it captures the beach and bystanders eerily close by. Not a single swimmer is in the water on this warm, clear winter afternoon.
The shark remained in Coogee Bay for 30 to 45 minutes before making its way north towards Gordons Bay and Clovelly, Denneny said
“I’m still in shock … It’s very sad to see,” he said. “I was in the water five minutes before it happened.”
“This poor family have to go through all of this,” he said. We are praying for the woman and her family.”
The woman, 35, is in critical condition at St Vincent’s Hospital.
Drone footage taken of a shark off Coogee beach in Sydney on Saturday.ONE SHOT CREATIVE
Denneny, the director of One Shot Creative, said he regularly flies his drone over Coogee and keeps in touch with the lifeguards.
On December 30, he alerted the lifeguards to a shark swimming nearby.
“They sounded the shark alarm and got everybody out of the water,” he said. “It was just a wobbegong, but you can never be too careful,” he said.
The victim, a woman in her 30s. was pulled from the water by members of the public who commenced first aid before the arrival of emergency services. Credit: TNV
Denneny urged policymakers to consider using drones to routinely patrol beaches for sharks, considering Saturday’s attack and a series of shark attacks in NSW last summer.
“We need to be doing something about this,” he said.
In December, the Minns government announced $2.5 million to boost beach safety, including more drones patrolling beaches, but only over the summer months.
