A young mother mauled by a shark has briefly regained consciousness after more than a week in a coma and spoken her emotional first words.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love you,\u201d Leah Stewart told her mother and partner after being extubated on Tuesday, 10 days after she was bitten by a great white shark on June 13.<\/p>\n
Stewart had spent a week on life-support and about five days undergoing surgeries \u2013 including an arm amputation \u2013 with still more to come, her brother Josh wrote on a fundraising page.<\/p>\n
\u201cHer first thoughts were with her daughter August and wanted to check she was okay,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a lot faster than anyone expected, and for us this feels like a miracle and is everything so many of us have hoped and prayed for over the past week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stewart, a 34-year-old teacher who is a mother to a one-year-old girl, remains in intensive care and was scheduled for another surgery on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A fundraiser page set up to fund her medical procedures and aid her family has garnered more than $488,000 in donations.<\/p>\n
While she remains fighting for her life in hospital, tensions regarding sharks off Sydney\u2019s coast are running high.<\/p>\n
A drone video circulating on social media showed what appeared to be a shark close to shore at the famous Bondi Beach.<\/p>\n
NSW\u2019s Primary Industries department confirmed a tiger shark was detected at Bondi on Tuesday afternoon, having been tagged at Maroubra earlier that day.<\/p>\n
Stewart\u2019s attack reignited calls to cull shark populations to protect swimmers, but NSW Premier Chris Minns said the great white shark population cannot be targeted as it is protected.<\/p>\n
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has granted a temporary exemption for aerial surveillance of Coogee Beach in the wake of the attack.<\/p>\n
The beach is about eight kilometres from Sydney Airport.<\/p>\n
Shark nets, which are temporarily removed during the winter whale migration season, will be reinstalled at the start of September.<\/p>\n
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