The woman who hefted a shark out of a sea pool to safety today has described how she did it.

And Melissa Hather, a Sydney real estate agent, used the opportunity to put herself forward for a TV survival show.

She was filmed by her daughter wrestling the shark in the Oak Park rock pool, in Cronulla, on Monday.

Huge cheers can be heard as she succeeds in lifting it up and back into the sea..

On the Today Show, Ms Hather explained how her mother had been swimming with the local club, the Jellybeans, when she saw a fin and evacuated the pool.

"She rang triple-0 and the police came down but they didn't know what to do".

"She rang me and said 'There's a shark in the pool' so I came down and thought 'You know what I can just grab him'."

"I herded him into the shallows, got him between my knees and just lifted him out"

"I'd love to go on Survivor - maybe this'll get me a gig - oh, it's the wrong network!"

"As a real estate agent I'm used to relocating people and this was similar".

Melissa Hather, a real estate agent, who successfully relocated a shark back into the sea.