Seconds before she died,while friends were hurrying her to hospital,Miss Hathaway told her fiance:“I am not in pain. Don’t worry about me,dear. God will look after me.”
Miss Hathaway,32,of Greenaway Flats,Milson's Point,was on a picnic trip with six friends in a motor cruiser.
When the shark attacked,her fiance,who was beside her,fought the shark with his hands and kicked it as it twisted in the blood-stained water,trying to drag its victim into deep water.
Miss Hathaway died 20 minutes later from her terrible injuries and shock. The shark almost tore off her right leg.
Miss Hathaway's fiance and two other friends were treated at the Mater Misericordia Hospital for shock.