The woman in her 50s was snorkelling off a boat yesterday afternoon when she was bitten by what was thought to be shark, and the HMAS Warramunga diverted its course to come to her aid.
A navy ship has rescued a woman after a suspected shark attack about 10 hours off the coast of Mackay in north Queensland.
The Queensland Ambulance Service says the woman, aged in her 50s, was snorkelling on Wednesday afternoon when she was bitten by a shark and returned to her boat.HMAS Warramunga, which was in the Whitsundays region for training exercises, diverted from its path to pick up the woman. Navy staff onboard applied a tourniquet and transported her to the mainland, arriving in Mackay Harbour about 12:30am this morning, when the ship was met with awaiting paramedics.
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