Fellow surfers and onlookers are being applauded for their actions, after a sixteen-year-old boy was mauled by a shark at a beach on the New South Wales north coast.
Emergency crews were called to Cabarita Beach, about 20 minutes from the Queensland, New South Wales border, after the surfer was attacked while swimming late Sunday afternoon.
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A video on social media shows the boy being carried up to the beach by a group of surfers and beachgoers, after he was bitten on his right leg, arm and wrist.
NSW Ambulance’s Ben Mumford told 9News the group helped torniquet the teen’s arm to stop the bleeding.
“There was a few brave people who helped him, an off-duty paramedic who asisted until we arrived,” Mumford said.
The teenager was taken to a hospital on the Gold Coast where he remains in a serious but stable condition.
Cabarita Beach will remain closed until at least late this afternoon, with the chance of that being extended to reduce the risk of a second attack.
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