- A large shark was spotted close to Cable Beach and reported three times in recent weeks by a pilot
- A leading shark expert says shark sightings do not predict shark attack risk
- Cable Beach's patrolled swimming area was closed three times in the second half of this year due to shark sightings
"And then as the waves rolled in it was actually silhouetted in the rolling wave and it was absolutely huge, and it was pretty chilling."
"It's not that sharks are there some of the time, they are there all of the time."
"But we've been here 17 years and that's the first time I've seen anything like that big shark, it's very unusual and that's why we were mindful of reporting it each time we saw it."