Hero rescuer reveals terrifying details of horror shark attack at Cabarita Beach in NSW

A surfer that attracted a youth from the jaws of a shark revealed the terrible moment in which the child thought was going.

Jakob Atcheson had taken a friend for a surfing in the north of his favorite north NSW When the beach hears screams and detects a fins in the water.

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Um I was surfing, I was taking my friend out for a surf that never surf before, and I was out and I, I hear it, that shouting and screaming, ”he said. 7News.

Orum I look and someone is in trouble and I can point to his friend or brother, and I can see that there is a big bunch of activity, and I see a arm and fin and I see this child’s underwater.

“I immediately pull a shovel and try to get him away from the shark.”

The sacrifice, a 16 -year -old child, was swimming near the break around 3.45 o’clock on Sunday when he was attacked.

The wrist suffered serious injuries on the right side of his body, including his right arm and leg.

Atcheson said that the child was briefly disappeared under water before going to the surface.

“At first I couldn’t see him, and then I saw him opened, and then he went down again, so the shark had dragged him,” he said.

When he reached the young man, the water was already full of blood.

“At first there was not much blood, but when I got there, it was everywhere.”

Im I had to stop the bleeding, so I saw the irrelevant arm, and I just caught it and stopped the bleeding and started to drag it.

“The arm and leg did not look great. I just held it and started swimming.

“I could almost touch the bottom and jumping by dragging it.”

As he pulled the 22 -year -old boy from shallow surfing, he saw his shark again.

“I looked back and the shark was looking at me. He was very close. To be honest, a miracle that he couldn’t get me.”

The images taken by Beachgoers show the shark and a few spectators on their way back to the shore.

The animal can finally be sliced ​​from the surface before swimming.

On the beach, an out -of -duty Queensland The medical officer helped to connect a leg rope as a tourniquet.

“My hands were found around my arm, around my arm, and finally had a leg rope and was far from a task,” Atcheson said.

“It was conscious, it was a surprise, but frankly it was full of adrenaline.

“He was scary, but it was such a privilege to save someone’s life.”

However, he admitted that it was difficult to forget what he saw.

“The bad wound on the arm, as if to think a little terrible, crazy,” he said.

“The leg is not only described.”

The victim remains in a stable situation Gold Coast University Hospital.

It is not yet clear what kind of shark is responsible.

It is believed that the animal initially targets a seal.

Experience for Atcheson.

“Actually, I learned to surf here, my first beach, I learned to surf, and yes, it was my favorite beach for a while.

“I always say that shark attacks have occurred, but they are not likely to be so low and that you are the first to come there.”

Tweed beaches were closed for 24 hours as a precaution.