An Australian surfer has told how he escaped the jaws of a 16ft large white shark by shaking his surfboard in his mouth and stabbing him in the face.
Phil Mummert, 28, was surfing at Bunker Bay – 150 miles from Perth – when he was struck off his board by the giant predator.
Phil was then bitten by the shark on the leg, leaving him with several deep punk wounds in his leg.
The attack happened on July 31, but details of the incident appeared in full today on the surfing website Magic Seaweed.
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“The tail half was still stuck with my leggy attached to me [leg rope] and it was in his mouth.
“It got stuck between me and the shark, so I grabbed it with both hands and tried to push it into his mouth.
“The other guys in the water said I hit him in the head and on the nose too. I remember the shark swimming around me and I just tried to keep my eyes on him and I tried to get him away to stick. “
“I remember seeing the size of his dorsal fin when he swam round. It was massive, at least a meter high. He was still there next to me when the other boys came to me,” he said. Mr. Mummert.
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“Once I realized what was happening, my first instinct was to just keep that piece of board in my mouth, because I thought he was biting that, then he was not biting me.”
Three friends who were in the water at the time rushed to his aid and managed to hoist Phil on a longboard and bring him ashore.
He was then taken to the nearby hospital, where they stacked his badly injured leg along with 63 stacks.
“Truly, I should not live. Or at least lose a leg,” he told the magazine.
There have been five fatal shark attacks in Australia so far this year.
Last month, Australian father rescued his son from the jaws of a shark after it hit the boy from a fishing boat and started mouthing.
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A local diver claims that people who witnessed the attack off the coast of Tasmania were of the opinion that the culprit was a great white man.
The child received cuts on Friday afternoon, local time, cuts to his arms, chest and head in his freezing about 5 km off the coast of Tasmania.
It is said that the shark swam away after the father fought it.
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