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‘Massive’ Great White Shark Bites Off Surfers Leg And Swims Off With It
A Man is fighting for his life after a ‘massive’ great white shark bites off his leg while he surfed, witness accounts of the shark swimming off with the 26 year old surfers leg with the surfboard attached. “I was just watching the shark go out to the ocean with his board still attached,” the unidentified witness told the newspaper.
A surfer mauled by a ‘monster’ Great White shark on South Australia’s west coast is fighting for his life in hospital. The surfer, named as Chris Blowes, 26, was about 350 yards offshore at Fishery Bay in Port Lincoln National Park. Shocked witnesses saw an 18 foot great white shark swimming away with the surfer’s leg and a surfboard in its jaw. He was among a group of about a dozen surfers in the water about 9.45am when the shark struck.
One witness, a surfer, who says he was 164 feet away at the time and saw the ”massive” pectoral fin.
Great white shark attacks are rare, often times when a great white shark does attack a human, it’s more of a case of mistaken idenity, the attack happened under conditions that police and marine experts have previously stated are dangerous. The overcast conditions make it difficult for surfers to see sharks that might be in the area and it is believed that sharks often mistake humans for seals or dolphins.
