Although known to be capable swimmers, a potential one-kilometre ocean swim by an echidna has landed it in hospital.

A distraught Steve Zmuda at Bribie Island Surf Club on Tuesday ... for her “incredible life”, not the awful way it was cut short. “Charlize was loved by many and was such a shining light ...

Charlize Zmuda, 17, was swimming at Woorim Beach on Bribie Island in southeast Queensland on Monday afternoon when she was attacked. Her father Steven Zmuda appeared on Channel Seven's Sunrise ...

Emergency crews were called to the Woorim Beach at Bribie Island, about 80 kms (50 miles) north of Brisbane around 5 p.m. local time on Monday following reports of a serious shark bite incident ...