Sunday’s fundraiser for Leah Stewart helped ease the psychological tussle between the lure of the ocean and a fear of its most dangerous predators.

A GoFundMe for the 34-year-old mother has raised more than $515,000.

I swim with the 6.30am crew. Ocean swimming has been my appointment with “Dr Pacific”.

A week after a shark attack that put a woman in hospital, the local community gathered at Coogee beach for a swim-out.

Sunday’s fundraiser for Leah Stewart helped ease the psychological tussle between the lure of the ocean and a fear of its most dangerous predators.

Leah Stewart remains in a critical but stable condition at St Vincent’s Hospital.