Melbourne man Anthony Gluth takes a dip at Byron Bay beach after great white kills swimmer

A MELBOURNE man has shrugged off concerns after a fatal shark attack to go swimming at the same Byron Bay beach hours later.

Twitter image shows a man walking into the surf at Byron bay Main Beach just hours after a man was killed by a shark. Picture: Twitter

BRAVE or stupid? You be the judge.

A man has shrugged off concerns hours after a fatal shark attack near Byron Bay to go for a quick dip at the same beach.

As soon as police left the scene with the body of the victim, Anthony Gluth from Melbourne jumped straight into the waves.

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“I’m just having a bit of a splash,” he said of his early afternoon dip.

“I won’t go out too far.”

Some swimmers and surfers ignored this sign erected at Byron Bay Main Beach, following a fatal shark attack earlier in the day. Picture: Twitter

Just hours earlier at about 10.30am, what was believed to be a four-metre long great white shark attacked a 50-year-old local man out swimming while his wife was on the beach.

Mr Gluth wasn’t the only person to head back into the water hours later - some swimmers and locals were back in surfing by the afternoon.