Surf cameras capture fatal great white shark attack on Gold Coast

The chilling moment a Gold Coast surfer is attacked and killed by a great white shark at a packed beach just metres from other surfers has been caught on surf cameras. WATCH NOW – GRAPHIC IMAGE WARNING

Surf cameras have captured the chilling and horrifying moment a surfer is picked off by a great white shark and fatally mauled just metres from other surfers on the Gold Coast.

The terrifying attack happens at the end of a line of at least 40 surfers at Greenmount Beach which this afternoon, like most afternoons, was packed.

Man dies after shark attack at Greenmount Beach, Coolangatta

A surf camera captures a fatal shark attack on the Gold Coast.

Footage from a Swellnet camera shows the 46-year-old Gold Coast man - identified as real estate agent Nick Slater - bobbing in the water when suddenly, in a moment of brute force and violence, he is ripped under by the shark.

The water explodes into white and for a split-second you see the black silhouette of the great white shark shoot at unbelievable speed away from shore.

Another explosion of water follows as the shark blasts back towards the shore, its silhouette again just visible just below the surface.

Greenmount Beach shack attack victim Nick Slater.

As violent and alarming as the attack appears, it seems many of the other surfers are all but oblivious to what is unfolding just metres from them.

Finally there are two more explosions of whitewater, and then nothing but the lifeless man floating face-down in his black wetsuit. 

Coastalwatch footage captures a surfer bringing the shark attack victim to shore. Picture: Coastalwatch

Footage from a Coastalwatch camera captures the frantic moments after the attack.

The man is dragged to shore by another surfer, with surf lifesavers rushing to the water’s edge awaiting their arrival.

That camera also captures a beach gripped in panic.

Surfers bring the man to shore where surf lifesavers are waiting. Picture: Coastalwatch

Most of the surfers by this stage had made it out of the water, while others frantically attempt to get to the beach.

Once on the sand, some sprint towards the fatally injured man where he is being treated by surf lifesavers.

Others walk the other way, while some just appear overwhelmed and stuck, unable to move.

Originally published as Surf cameras capture fatal great white shark attack on Gold Coast