Pictured: Teenage girl killed by shark in Australia as her father says people should keep going to the beach

The grieving begetter of a teenage miss who was killed successful a shark attack successful Australia has insisted that radical proceed to bask the beach.

Charlize Zmuda, 17, was swimming successful an unpatrolled conception of the fashionable Woorim Beach astatine Bribie Island, northbound of Brisbane, conscionable earlier 5pm connected Monday erstwhile the shark spot her, ABC News reports.

Speaking a time aft she was killed, her begetter Steve Zmuda insisted that their household did not privation radical to halt going to the formation pursuing her death.

He told ABC: "When I got the tragic quality yesterday, I was highly gutted, but thing that my woman and I privation to accidental is we don't privation radical to halt coming to the formation and enjoying our beach.

"It's a large portion of our lives."

Ms Zmuda had been a Bribie Island nipper, a nine which helps children and teenagers larn astir formation information since she was 8 years aged and had competed successful the Lifesaving World Championships.

Her begetter explained that alongside her surf lifesaving skills his girl was “so musically gifted”.

He continued: “She could perceive a portion of euphony and past prime up and play it astatine the driblet of a heartbeat.

Floral tributes were laid by the formation and a memorial work was held connected the island's eastbound seashore aboriginal connected Tuesday.

Another household subordinate Renee Zmuda had antecedently said that the assemblage wanted to absorption connected “the unthinkable beingness she lived and not the atrocious mode she died”.

In a connection they said: "Charlize was loved by galore and was specified a shining airy who genuinely touched the lives of everyone she met.

"She loved the formation and it genuinely was her happiest spot connected Earth."

CEO of Surf Life Saving Queensland (SLSQ) Dave Whimpey said Ms Zmuda was a highly skilled lifesaver who spent her clip "looking aft Queenslanders".

He said: "She was an property manager, truthful she had a radical of young kids that she looked aft each weekend.”

He continued: "These incidents bash happen, they're rather uncommon ... a young miss that had everything to unrecorded for doing what she loved.”