A shark off Muriwaii beach thought to have been involved in today's fatal attack. Picture: Westpac Rescue/Twittert Source: Supplied
A MAN is dead after a Great White shark attack at Muriwai Beach, north of Auckland.
Emergency services rushed to Muriwai, a popular west coast surf beach just before 11.30am today following reports of a shark attack.
A student said a police officer fired 20 shots at the 3.7-4.3 metre long Great White Shark, which has not been retrieved from the sea, Stuff NZ reported.
Fisherman Pio Mosie told APNZ that he saw a man swimming nearby.
"All of a sudden ... we saw the shark fin and next minute, boom, attack him then blood every where on the water," he said.
Muriwa Beach, north of Auckland, New Zealand, where a 47-year-old man has been killed by a Great White Shark. Picture: Wikipedia
He called 111 while his mate ran to get help.
"He was still alive, he put his, head up, we called him to swim over the rock to where we were.
"He raised his hand up, and then while he was rising his hand up we saw another attack pull him in the water.
"He came back up, his head was on the water ... then we notice he was already dead."
A man has died after a shark attack on a popular beach north of Auckland, New Zealand.
Stef McCallum, 18, of Wellington, said they were first aware something was wrong when a man ran across to the surf club to get help.
A woman told us a man had just been killed by a shark, she said.
"She said there was a big pool of blood in the water."
McCallum said they saw a police officer go out in a surf boat and shoot the shark.
"He fired about 20 shots."
Around 200 people were on the beach and people quickly ran.
"Everybody was evacuated from the water. Word of mouth, 'shark', and everybody left the water."
A witness told 3 News NZ that he spotted the lone swimmer while he was out fishing at the beach.
The distressed man signalled for help when he was attacked by a shark, before he was pulled underwater.
At this point, the witness said three or four other sharks appeared in the area.
The victim was aged 47, from Meriwai.
Police Inspector Shawn Rutene said the man had been swimming alone from Maori Bay to Muriwai Beach, several hundred metres from shore when he was attacked by a 4-metre shark, described as broad.
Insp Rutene said the man's wife and family were distraught. It took police and Muriwai lifeguards about 30 minutes to recover the body as two sharks circled, with police shooting at the sharks.
The three lifeguards recovering the body knew the victim.
It is understood the man was a local and his family have gathered at the scene. People have been seen embracing in the surf club car park and were being escorted into the club,
New Zealand Herald reported.
The beach and the park it lies in has been closed.
Earlier this week surfer Bourne Nobel Buiski posted on Facebook that there had been a "massive" shark spotted near surfers on Monday at Piha, 14 kilometres south of Muriwai.
He said that a local man ran out of the water "white faced and terrified".
"He was saying that a great white, a massive great white had just swum right beside him," Buiski said.
No one believed him, he said.
"As they are so rare here. There were about 60 people there, and no one came in."
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