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Woman wrestles shark from swimming pool

Amazing footage has emerged of a woman wrestling a shark out of an ocean swimming pool in New South Wales.

Sydney real estate agent Melissa Hatheier was swimming in the Oak Park rock pool near Cronulla when she passed over a small shark.

She showed no sign of fear as she swam nearer.

Standing thigh deep in the water, she pauses as though taking a closer look before bending over, with her face just above the water’s surface, and lifting the shark out of the water and into her arms.

With some difficulty, she slowly walked over to the pool barrier and freed and over the pool barrier.

Ms Hathier told Nine Network’s Today show that her mum, who swims in the pool every morning, had called her on Monday to alert her there was a shark in the pool.

“I said, OK don’t worry, I will come down. So I came down – there was a bit of a crew down here – and had a look and he was a little Port Jackson and was doing laps of the pool and I said, ‘you know I’m going to go in and check him out’,” she said.

Watch the footage below:

“I jumped in and I thought, ‘I reckon I can probably get him out.’ And Mum, god love her, called triple zero so the police came down as well.

“And they didn’t know what to do. So I said, I think I can just grab him. So I herded him into the shallows and then I just sort of got on my knees. With his fins, I picked him up and helped him back.

“He was getting stressed because he was bumping into the rocks and I was thinking I just need to put him back where he is meant to be.”

Dubbed “the shark wrangler”, Ms Hatheier bravery shocked many when the video footage was shared on social media and has since been viewed more than 25,000 times.

“Our in-house shark wrangler Melissa Hatheier wrestling a shark out of Oak Park rock pool yesterday morning,” her workplace Cronulla State Real Estate’s Facebook post read.

“Nice work Mel! Next level.”

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