Police said emergency crews in Australia continued are scouring ocean waters for a surfer who disappeared beneath the surface after likely being attacked by a shark. Just after 7 p.m. local time Thursday,

A fisherman tried to warn surfers that a “big, angry” great white shark was circling near Granites Beach hours before a 28-year-old was mauled in the shallows.

Authorities in South Australia are searching the waters of the Great Australian Bight for the body of a surfer presumed dead after being attacked by a shark.

Australia's Granites Beach will remain “closed to the public" following the deadly incident, officials said A surfer who went missing at an Australian beach is now believed to have been the victim of a shark attack,