Take a bite

Nineteen-year-old Elyse Frankcom had been hosting a swim-with-the-dolphins tour for Rockingham Wild Encounters when a shark bit into her hip and left buttock yesterday. The attack occurred off the north end of Garden Island Naval Base. Luckily for her, as the shark bit her, it brushed aside another man who grabbed hold of the shark’s tail, which caused it to let go.

Elyse then started to sink to the bottom but the man grabbed her and brought her to the surface and got her back on board the boat.

The attack comes only 10 weeks after Busselton surfer Nick Edwards was killed by a great white off Gracetown in WA’s South-West. And the attack happened in an area just 35km north of Port Kennedy, where father-of-three Brian Guest was mauled to death while snorkelling with his son in December 2008.

Ms Frankcom is recovering in Royal Perth Hospital.