A shark knocked a surfer off his board and into the water today in Australia.
Around 20 surfers were in the water at Bells Beach when the nearly 7 ft (2m) shark hit the surfers’ board.
“I heard the guy scream, he was knocked off his board, there was water thrashing all around him,” caller “Steve” told radio station 3AW.
“We all realised there was a shark on him … he started swimming away from his board.”
“He was pretty shaken up; everyone out there was shaken up quite a bit, He said.
Other surfers helped the unidentified man back to shore.
Steve thought it may have been a thresher shark that knocked the man off his board. Thresher sharks are not considered a threat to humans and are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the World Conservation Union.
The location has been marked on the 2016 shark attack bites tracking map as no injury.
