Woman seriously injured by shark bite at Port Noarlunga

A woman has been left with serious injuries after being bitten by a shark at Port Noarlunga about 30 kilometres south of Adelaide.

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00:00 South Australia's ambulance service said they received reports that a 32 year old woman

00:05 had been bitten on the head by a shark at about 1.20 this afternoon while she was swimming

00:10 in the water here near the Port Nalungga jetty.

00:13 Now emergency services quickly raced to the scene taking her out of the water and have

00:18 since transported her to the Flinders Medical Centre where she remains with serious but

00:22 non-life threatening injuries.

00:24 Now it's a sweltering day here in South Australia so the beach was busy at the time so police

00:29 with the assistance of other emergency services moved to quickly evacuate the water while

00:34 a search to locate the shark was undertaken.

00:36 Members of the public have since returned to the water though with the shark yet to

00:39 be located.

00:40 Here's how some witnesses have described today's incident.

00:43 We saw everyone out of the water so we went out and then we were like we looked up there

00:48 and then we were like oh it's just someone in the ambulance so like something and then

00:52 we went back to our spot and then back into the water we heard the alarms we rushed out.

00:57 This is pretty much our regular beach so it's kind of scary knowing that it could have been

01:03 us.

01:04 Yeah that's what we were saying it could have been the children out there when they were

01:07 doing the aquatics as well.

01:10 This attack comes less than two weeks after a fatal incident near Streaky Bay on South

01:15 Australia's west coast where a 55 year old surfer was killed in a shark attack.

01:20 That's the second fatal incident on South Australia's air peninsula this year after

01:25 a local teacher was killed in a shark attack near Elliston.

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