Lifesavers patrol Surfers Paradise beach after shark sighting

A girl has been rushed to hospital after a near-drowning in a resort swimming pool on the Gold Coast. It comes after an earlier shark scare on the Coast, and the mass rescue of seven swimmers.

A beach was evacuated due to a shark scare while seven people were saved in a mass rescue on a wild day at Gold Coast beaches.

In a third, separate incident, a girl has been rushed to hospital after a near-drowning in a resort swimming pool in Surfers Paradise.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the girl, whose age was not known, was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a serious but stable condition just before 12.30pm.

Critical care paramedics were called in to assist

Earlier, lifeguards ordered people from the water at Surfers Paradise after the sighting at 10.45am of a shark attacking a pool of bait fish.

It’s unclear if the creature is the same as a 2m bull shark spotted from the air at Main Beach just before 10am.

The beach was evacuated after the shark sighting. Picture: Nigel Hallett

The beach was closed for about 15 minutes before it was reopened at 11.45am.

The Westpac Lifesaver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to do a final patrol to give the all clear that the shark had moved on from the beach.

Lifesavers are patrolling the area on jet skis and IRBs as a precaution.

Lifesavers patrol a beach at Surfers Paradise after a shark sighting. Picture: Nigel Hallett

Gold Coast real estate agent Nick Slater was fatally mauled by a great white shark while surfing at another busy beach, Greenmount, last September.

Meanwhile, paramedics are assessing multiple patients after a mass rescue at Tallebudgera.

Seven people were pulled from the water by a Surf Life Saving Queensland wave runner.

Surf Life Saving Queensland says six patients are okay but one is reportedlly in a critical condition.