Woman savaged by shark in bloody double attack in front of horrified beachgoers as she’s left screaming for help
A WOMAN was mauled by a shark twice in a gruesome attack in front of horrified beachgoers.
Other swimmers rushed to help the screaming woman as onlookers described them as “covered in blood”.
Pam Cook, 64, was swimming off the coast of South Australia in Beachport at the time of the attack.
Emergency services rushed to the scene and with the help of other beachgoers pulled her from the water.
One onlooker, Greg Rae, said he could hear her screaming for help after the horror attack.
“There was a couple of ladies running in and they were covered in a bit of blood and they mentioned a shark attack,” he said.
“We immediately just jumped in, went and grabbed our trauma gear and first aid equipment and then responded.”
She was rushed to hospital in serious condition after the shark mauled her foot and thigh.
Horrified witnesses said they saw the woman suffer two brutal bites from the beast.
Greg told ABC news: “The shark attacked her foot first and then … had another go, and that’s where the big laceration was.”
“A couple of ladies were trying to apply pressure to the main wound — she had a couple of wounds that we needed to treat.
“She was just lucky that it didn’t hit a main artery.”
Two women who were on the beach at the time, Silvana and Mishelle Jewell, saw Pam screaming and waving for help from the water.
The pair described the scene as “horrifying”.
Pam was taken to local Mount Gambier hospital after the attack but is now in a stable condition.
Silvana said: “At first we thought she was just waving to her friends and then we realised no, she was getting frantic, that something had happened.”
“We went running down the jetty and I said to Mishelle, ‘Call an ambulance’.
“We’ve never heard of a shark down here.
“It was horrifying, just horrifying.”
Pam was visiting the beach for her regular morning dip with a local swimming group.
They meet everyday at 7.30am before taking a swim off the Beachport Jetty.