A 2.3m Great White Shark washed ashore at Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast just south of Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach. October 16, 2008

Sharks feasting on bait fish off South Stradbroke Island on the Gold Coast.

A half eaten Great White shark washed up at the southern end of Palm Beach, Gold Coast. Makes one wonder at the size of the one that had the feed! Photo supplied by: Mick Holtz – (You wont catch me surfing out there! Matt Valencia)

A HORRIFIED Twitter user tweeted the moment a tourist was killed in the jaws of a "gigantic shark" in a South African holiday spot.

Gregg Coppen watched as Lloyd Skinner was savaged in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday (local time) tweeting: "Holy _____ We just saw a gigantic shark eat what looked like a person in front of our house…"

He added: "That shark was huge. Like dinosaur huge."

"We were swimming only about 15m away from the guy. We were at about chest depth and he was a little deeper….I never want to experience this again. I’m going to block it out of my mind.”

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