There's been another shark sighting at an Auckland beach, after a couple eating raspberries on a Saturday evening picnic were startled when a shark they described as being up to 2.7m breached the water nearby.
The sighting, at the Swann Reserve end of Big Manly Beach about 7.30pm, is among several in northern New Zealand this summer.
On Wednesday an Auckland man was left bloodied and suffering minor injuries after a shark bit his arm at Bay of Plenty's Papamoa Beach, and the Department of Conservation called for caution at nearby Tauranga Harbour this long weekend after several possible great white shark sightings.
Earlier this month Kaelah Marlow, 19, died in a suspected shark attack at Waihi Beach.
In last night's Big Manly Beach sighting, Riley Martell, 19, and his girlfriend Lailah Fonseca were having a picnic when the rusty-coloured shark, species unknown, twice breached the water about four metres from shore.