Mum wrestles shark in rock pool and throws it out
Heroic real estate agent saves the day by throwing a shark out of a rock pool
Melissa Hatheier filmed wrestling shark in Cronulla ocean pool
Mum wrestles shark spotted while swimming in beachside rock pool and casually throws it out of the water
Real estate agent Melissa Hatheier, dubbed the "Shark Wrangler" by colleagues, says she did just what she does in the office - relocate things needing a new home
A mum 'wrangles' a shark during her morning swim and throws it out of a beachside rock pool to huge cheers in this astonishing footage.
It was, real estate agent Melissa Hatheier claimed, just what she does in the office - relocating things needing a new home.
Melissa - now dubbed the "Shark Wrangler" by colleagues - went for a swim in the pool in the beachside suburb of Cronulla on Sydney's southside.
However, the swim was soon disrupted when her mum noticed a fin in the water while swimming with her group of friends and yelled "Oh my god, get out - there's a shark!"
Video shot by Melissa's daughter shows the mum fearless of the shark - swimming almost over it in the pool.She then appears to wrestle with the shark and pick it up in her arms.
She carries it over to the edge of the pool and tosses it back into the ocean.
People watching on cheered loudly.Melissa told Channel Nine's Today show: "I herded him into the shallows and then I just got him with my knees, with his fins, and threw him back and saved him,."
TV host Karl Stefanovic said: "Just a can-do woman."
Melissa continued: "I wasn't (scared). I was just thinking he was trapped in this rock pool and I needed to help him out.
"I'm a real estate agent. My job is to help people relocate to their perfect homes. I just helped the shark relocate to the ocean.
"If you need any property out this way....
Stefanovic interjected: "It was a ploy!
"It was actually just a flathead (fish)!"Video of the incident has now gone viral on Facebook.
Cronulla Real Estate wrote on Facebook of its staffer: "Our in house Shark Wrangler Melissa Hatheier wrestling a shark out of Oak Park Rock Pool yesterday morning!
MEET Sydney’s ‘shark wrangler’ — the Cronulla real estate agent filmed wrestling a shark in her local beach pool before throwing it back out to sea.
Melissa Hatheier became a social media phenomenon after being filmed by her mother wrestling the shark in the Oak Park rock pool on Monday.Ms Hatheier was swimming in the pool when she passed over it, Nine News reported.
In the video, she stops swimming to peer into the water before appearing to wrestle with the shark and pick it up in her arms before throwing it into the ocean.
Fellow swimmers then break into huge cheers.
“I got home from the gym, and my gorgeous mum who swims every morning down here in the rock pool rang and said there was a shark in the pool,” she told Channel 9’s Today show.
“And 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’.
SHARK WRANGLER Mum wrestles shark in beachside rock pool and casually throws it out of the water
Heroic real estate agent saves the day by throwing a shark out of a rock pool
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