A young woman was brutally attacked by a shark after her inflatable ring drifted out to sea, leaving a trail of blood in its wake.
Barry Brown, of Esperance in Australia, had been swimming at Wylie Bay when he spotted the woman being dragged out into the ocean.
Barry said he was with his brothers nervously looking at the individual being taken out into the depths for around half an hour before the attack happened, ABC News reports.
"She just seemed to be getting deeper and deeper and deeper," Mr Brown said.
"Then we actually saw a figure under the [pool ring] and we weren't quite sure whether it was a dolphin or what it was.
The resident said the woman was calmly swimming on her back, with one hand on her side as she returned to shore.
He added: "The shark actually circled the [pool ring] a couple of times and then took back off into the blue."
According to the witness, he was terrified that the shark would return as he went into the water to help the woman after a trail of blood had formed.
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As he met her around 15 to 20 metres out, he claimed that he picked her up and ran as fast as he could to where his girlfriend was standing to meet them.
"We wrapped her up in a towel, in one motion, chucked her in the back of a car and then straight off to the hospital," he said.
Barry said the shark bite was not a "10 out of 10, but it was one to still make you think anything could happen here".
The woman remained conscious throughout the ordeal and her rescuer said she kept "a very cool head".
It was reported that she was in a stable condition at Royal Perth Hospital on Monday (February 7).
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