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'Get out': Second Sydney beach shut down after shark spotted metres from shore

Swimmers at a popular beach in Sydney’s south were evacuated after a shark, estimated to be three metres in size, became trapped in the the netted baths.

Police were called to Brighton Le Sands Beach just before 6.30pm on Tuesday after swimmers reported seeing something in the netted area.

It came just 12 hours after a four-metre great white was spotted further down the coast at Tamarama.

Incredible footage shared to social media shows the shark lurking through the water just metres from the Brighton Le Sands shoreline.

Local resident Pamela Klink said she first heard reports of the shark at 1pm after another a woman spotted it and “made everyone get out of the water”.

Footage shared to social media showed the shark lurking around the waters at Brighton Le Sands beach on Tuesday. Image: Facebook/Nick Webb
Footage shared to social media showed the shark lurking around the waters at Brighton Le Sands beach on Tuesday. Image: Facebook/Nick Webb

“No one believed her. We took no risk and left,” Ms Klink wrote on Facebook.

A NSW Police spokesperson told Yahoo7 News by the time their officers arrived, they couldn’t see the shark but had been in contact with the local council and the Department of Primary Industries.

DPI officials and council are understood to be returning to the beach this morning to ensure the shark is no longer there.

The netted area at the beach doesn’t fully enclose the area, and it’s believed the shark may have left by itself.

Great white spotted at Tamarama

Earlier in the day, swimmers and surfers at Tamarama were told to get out of the water after the four-metre-long great white shark was sighted, calmly patrolling the shallows and chasing a seal.

“The seal was on its own and honestly, it was like one to two minutes later, the great white appears, so I think it followed it in,” shark drone app developer Jason Iggledon said.

One man, oblivious to the danger, was about to jump into the water when lifeguards shouted at him not to go in.

“Don’t go out! No! Don’t go out, there’s a big great white out there,” they can be heard saying.

A drone captured the shark’s journey from Bronte, its last sighting on its way towards Bondi.

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A four-metre-long great white shark was sighted, calmly patrolling the shallows and chasing a seal, near surfers at Tamarama. Source: 7News
A four-metre-long great white shark was sighted, calmly patrolling the shallows and chasing a seal, near surfers at Tamarama. Source: 7News