An Australian surfer repeatedly punched a 10-feet long white shark that had bit his wife until it released his wife’s leg.
According to details, the couple was surfing at a beach near Port Macquarie on Saturday morning when the woman was bitten twice by the shark and her right leg got injured.
“Her companion was forced to punch the fish until it let go,” police said in the statement.
Paramedics gave the 35-year-old first-aid at the beach and then she was airlifted to a major hospital for surgery.
One witness who was surfing nearby when the attack occurred called the man a “hero” for taking on what appeared to be a great white shark up to three meters (10 feet) long.
“He started laying into the shark because it wouldn’t let go,” Jed Toohey told the Daily Telegraph. “He saved her life… He was really incredible.”
The woman’s husband, Mark Rapley, said that “I did what anyone would have done at that moment”.
Australia has one of the world’s highest incidences of shark attacks and there have been five fatal ones in the country so far this year.
Just last month, a shark pulled a 10-year-old boy from a fishing boat off Tasmania. He survived after his father jumped in the water to save him.
