A surfer who died after a shark attack at Greenmount Beach yesterday afternoon has been named as Nick Slater, with beaches now closed on the southern Gold Coast.
Mr Slater was attacked about 5:00pm and suffered leg injuries.
Surfers brought Mr Slater to shore where lifeguards and beachgoers tried to save the 46-year-old, but he died from his leg injury.
Fellow surfer Jade Parker told Channel 7 he helped bring the badly injured man back to shore.
"I spotted his board. He was floating next to his board, motionless basically," Mr Parker said.
"I actually didn't know it was a shark attack at that time.
"There wasn't even any blood in the water."
He said three other people were in the water and screamed out for help.
"I just kind of clicked into gear and tried to assist him back to the beach as best I could," Mr Parker said.
He pulled a shark tooth out of the man's board.
"The tooth was actually still lodged in the fibre glass. It was a good sized bite into the board and the tooth had obviously just snapped off.
"I removed the tooth and passed it on to the authorities," he said.
Bond University shark researcher Daryl McPhee said the tooth would help identify the type of shark that attacked Mr Slater.
"Assuming the shark is located, it will be very difficult to locate it. I'm not a fan of hunting down a specific shark after a bite, I don't really think it achieves anything. There is no such thing as a rogue shark ,so it's not a Hollywood movie," Mr McPhee said.
Beaches closed
All beaches from the border to North Burleigh are closed today and a helicopter is doing regular sweeps along the beach.
Lifeguards in vehicles are travelling along the beach and lifeguards on jet skis are patrolling the waters.
Greenmount is surrounded by shark nets, with the attack believed to be the first death on a Gold Coast beach since 1958.
Chief Lifeguard Warren Young said despite everyone's best efforts the man could not be saved.
"It was a pretty severe attack and the ambulance and paramedics were here and did what they could, but it was to no avail," Mr Young said.
Queensland's Department of Agriculture and Fisheries shark net program website warns nets do, "not provide an impenetrable barrier between sharks and humans", nor prevent sharks from entering any particular area.
"They're intended to catch 'resident sharks' and sharks that pass through the area while feeding on fish bait," the website said.
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