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A swimmer whose left leg was seized by a 16ft shark managed to escape by poking it in the eye before he was rescued by a woman lifeguard.
The shark, believed to have been a great white, seized Jason Cull, 37, at Middleton Beach in southwestern Australia on Saturday.
From a hospital bed in Albany, about 250 miles south of Perth, where he was being treated for deep lacerations to his calf, Mr Cull said: “It banged straight into me. I sort of punched it, and it grabbed me by the leg ... I just remember being dragged backwards underwater. I felt along it, I found its eye and I poked it in the eye, and that's when it let go.”
Joanne Lucas, a volunteer lifesaver, leapt into the water after swimmers started panicking when they heard Mr Cull struggling, and dragged him back to shore.
The shark was one of three seen off the beach. There are about 15 shark attacks a year in Australian waters, one of the highest rates in the world, but on average just one a year is fatal. Last month a shark killed a 16-year-old surfer off Australia's eastern coast. (AP)
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When I was growing up in Oz and training to be a volunteer lifesaver, we were always told that punching a shark on the nose or poking it in the eye is about the only hope you have of not being eaten. And this proves, it does work!
Brent , Mermaid Beach, Australia
it would be good if you knew the full story.... He didn't get attacked in Sydney as the healine says, he got attacked in Albany (Lower south west of WA!!! (thats the other side of the flippin continent!!!!)) Sydney is over 4,000 kms away! the headline completely contradicts the story!
Sara Plug, Albany WA, Australia
Thumb in the eye, fellow humans. Remember that when you face our last remotely capable sea predator.
Edward, London,