When he mentioned his plans to his friends, they strongly advised against entering the water.

“I approached them and said, ‘I’m thinking of going for a surf.’ They just looked at me, shaking their heads,” he recounted to 2GB’s Ben Fordham.

“They warned, ‘No, don’t go out there, you’re going to get attacked by a shark.'”

As a precaution, authorities have shut down more than a dozen beaches across the city following these shark incidents.

More than a dozen beaches across the city have now been closed as a result of the attacks.

“[They] ran up to us and started screaming, ‘in the water, there’s a guy, he’s bleeding out,’” he said.

“We looked out, and as he went over a wave, you could just see the pool of blood in the water.

“No matter how murky the water was, the wave was red.”