Surfer bitten by shark in Australia

ABC News AU
ABC News AU

A surfer was bitten by a shark off the Portland in Australia.

The unidentified man was surfing alone on Thursday when he saw seals breaching out of the waters, and then he felt the bite.

He told ABC news “Then I felt a bite and a bit of a splash at the back of my board … and then the shark came up on my right-hand side, it put a bite in my wetsuit on my left-hand thigh, and basically from there it just kept coming back on each side.”
“Every time I saw its head or it was up near me I tried to punch it as hard as I could.”
Thankfully the man was able to successfully paddle back to shore and then drive himself to the hospital.

The shark, which is believed to be over six feet long, damaged the tendon on the man’s left hand.

Click to see the location marked on the 2015 shark attack bites tracking map.

This is the fifty-ninth bite attack of 2015, seven of which were fatal.

 

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  1. Fish stick

    I have been browsing online more than 3 hours today, yet I never found all the shark attack info you have. It’s pretty worth enough for me. Personally, if all site owners and bloggers made as much an effort as you did, the internet will be a lot more useful than ever before.

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