A four-metre tiger shark has bitten a kayak, sending a man "flying" into the water off the Sunshine Coast.
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Surf Life Saving Queensland said the man was paddling about 1.5 kilometres off the headland at Moffat Beach when the shark knocked him out of his kayak on Thursday morning.
"Reports from the patient is an approximately 4.5-metre tiger shark slammed into his kayak and sent him flying into the water," a Surf Life Saving Queensland spokesman said.
"It apparently bit down on the kayak."
The spokesman said the shark was still hanging on to the kayak when the man managed to climb back on board.
"The kayak had been punctured and was apparently sinking but an air pocket in the front prevented it from sinking," he said.
"The shark was seen circling but it didn't come back again."
Queensland Ambulance Service Birtinya officer-in-charge Keren Hanwright said they received reports a kayaker had been knocked off his craft by a shark at Kings Beach about 6.30am.
"This gentleman was an experienced kayaker, he happens to carry a radio for safety reasons and he used this radio to call for help," she said.
"A nearby kayaker has come to his aid, closely followed by surf life savers."
Life savers used jet skis to bring both men back to shore.
Ms Hanwright said both men suffered from mild shock but were otherwise uninjured.
"Both have gone home today," she said.
A Queensland water police vessel with two men on board has retrieved the kayak by 10.45am.
Police Sergeant Kyle Bates told Seven News the recovered kayak had teeth marks.
Sergeant Bates said while he couldn’t confirm it, it was possible the man had been scattering bait in the water to attract fish.
“The shark might have just been attracted to that,” he said.
“I would suggest this was more than likely a one-off incident.”
The incident, along with the sighting of another big shark off Queensland's Sunshine Coast prompted new opposition calls for a parliamentary inquiry.
The LNP opposition reckons thesew and three tragic attacks in Cid Harbour, one of them fatal, reinforce the need for an investigation by politicians of the state's shark safety program.
They tried to get one up in parliament but it was knocked down by the government, which wants to get to the cause of the attacks in Cid Habour and has sent out requests for quotes to research organisations.
Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries Mark Furner said they want to know what might have led to the fatal attack in the Whitsundays region this month and two non-fatal ones in September.
with AAP
