Yesterday, drone operator Geoff Aquino quickly made his way to Noosa Beach to capture a closer view of the anxious mother and baby as they traveled along the coast.
“After a few moments I saw she was trying to roll because the baby was under her,” Aquino said.
“It was gasping, begging for air.”
“The baby looked like a little mummy really, it was severely entangled,” Aquino said.
After struggling for hours and dragging the knotted netting with them, a shark control program contractor was sent out to free the pair.
“They’ve expended a lot of energy and been under a lot of stress,” Envoy Foundation co-founder and director Andre Borell said.
The incident has reignited debate on whether shark nets should be pulled from the state’s coastline. Â
“There’s technology out there now that allows us to co-exist, we just don’t use it in Queensland,” Borell said.
