Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water.
There was another shark attack Down Under – this time the woman survived after her husband repeatedly hit the shark.
Chantelle Doyle was attacked on Saturday morning by a 10 white great white shark while surfing on Shelly Beach in Port Macquarie, Australia, and held ‘hard lacerations’ to her right leg, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Fortunately, Doyle’s husband was also surfing nearby and immediately came to her rescue.
“This fella paddled around and jumped off his board onto the shark and hit it to get it to release her and then helped her back to the beach,” Chief Surv Life Saving NSW chief Steven Pearce told SMH. “Pretty full-on, really heroic.”
Doyle was treated by bystanders and paramedics until she could be taken to a nearby hospital, where she is reported to be in stable condition.
This is the 13th shark attack in Australia this summer.
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Among the attacks, all attributed to large whites, is a 60-year-old surfer who was shot dead off the coast of northern New South Wales in June; a scuba diver was killed by the Great Barrier Reef in July; days later, a 17-year-old boy was killed near Clarence Valley; a 10-year-old was attacked (but survived) by a shark that actually pulled him out of a boat; a documentary filmmaker was hospitalized after an attack in Cairns, and just days ago a surfer was bitten on the leg by a 16-foot-tall white man in Bunker Bay. He survived.
This article first appeared in the New York Post.
