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<\/p>\nA shark attack has killed a woman swimming at a remote beach but a passer-by’s heroic efforts might have saved the life of the man she was with.<\/p>\n
The pair were bitten while swimming at Kylies Beach in the Crowdy Bay National Park on the NSW mid-north coast on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
A woman in her 20s was dead when paramedics attended shortly after but a makeshift tourniquet had stemmed the man’s bleeding enough for them to airlift him to hospital.<\/p>\n
The man, also in his 20s, was taken to John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle in a critical condition, suffering severe thigh and leg injuries.<\/p>\n
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The attack happened at a beach at Crowdy Bay, north of Newscastle and Sydney. (Source: Google Maps)<\/p>\n
The intervention of the witness likely saved the man’s life, NSW Ambulance Superintendent Josh Smyth said.<\/p>\n
“The courage shown by this [person] is amazing,” he said.<\/p>\n
“To put yourself out there is very heroic, and it did give us time to get that male patient.”<\/p>\n
The beach has been closed after the 6.30am (local time) incident.<\/p>\n
Five SMART drumlines will be temporarily installed off Kylies Beach, the NSW government said.<\/p>\n
They are already in place to the north at Port Macquarie and to the south at Forster.<\/p>\n
Police will liaise with wildlife experts to determine what species of shark carried out the attack.<\/p>\n
Nearby shark listening stations did not pick up any detections before the incident.<\/p>\n
The national park, about an hour’s drive south of Port Macquarie, is known for beach camping, fishing spots and walking tracks.<\/p>\n
Port Macquarie MP Robert Dwyer said the local community was heartbroken.<\/p>\n
“I want to thank the people who stepped in straight away and the first responders who pushed through tough conditions to do everything they could,” he told AAP.<\/p>\n
Surf Life Saving NSW chief executive Steven Pearce said the “really, really terrible” incident had occurred at a particularly remote part of the national park.<\/p>\n
“These incidents are horrific for everyone and unfortunately we’ve had a few this year already,” he told 2GB radio.<\/p>\n
“It’s so remote there’s no life guarding services up there.”<\/p>\n
It was the second fatal shark attack in NSW in two months.<\/p>\n
In September, avid surfer Mercury Psillakis, 57, was killed by a great white shark at Long Reef Beach in northern Sydney.<\/p>\n
He had been warning other surfers about the shark before he was mauled to death.<\/p>\n
It prompted the state government to scrap a trial removal of shark nets at three NSW beaches, with Premier Chris Minns suggesting it would be “silly” to go ahead in light of the attack.<\/p>\n
Researchers and animal advocates have long argued the nets – used between Newcastle and Wollongong – offered minimal protection and predominantly injure other sea life.<\/p>\n
SMART drumlines, in which sharks are tagged, released and then monitored, have increased in use since their introduction in NSW a decade ago.<\/p>\n
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