An Australian woman has found online fame after a clip of her casually picking up a stranded shark was posted on Facebook.

Melissa Hatheier, a Sydney-based estate agent, rescued the lost shark from a rock pool by picking it up “like a toddler” and throwing it back in the sea.

The amateur shark wrangler swam into action after her mother called her about the shark episode in the beachside suburb of Cronulla.

Thankfully, it turned out to be a Port Jackson shark, which are “considered harmless to humans”, according to the Australian Museum.

“So I came down, there was a bit of a crew here, and had a look and he was a little Port Jackson and was doing laps of the pool ...” she told Channel 9’s Today show.