Australia shark attack

Australia shark attack

Authorities on Monday (May 12) spotted a big great white shark swimming off co...ast Middleton beach near Albany where Australian school teacher Jason Cull was attacked on Sunday (May 11) while swimming. Recovering in his hospital bed, Cull recalled the ordeal. "Initially I thought it was a dolphin," Cull told local journalists. "I just remember being dragged along backwards. I felt along it but I found its eye and I poked it in the eye, that's when it let go," said Cull. The shark tore two chunks from Cull's left leg, ripping off half his calf and leaving him with deep lacerations to his knee and thigh. A local surf lifesaver heard Cull, 37, screaming and raced into the surf to rescue him. 52-year-old mother of two, Jo Lucas dragged Cull back to the shore. "He was just so brave in the water, he didn't panic, he didn't yell, scream or lose it," said Lucas refusing local media's call on her as a hero. An Australian teenage surfer was killed in a shark attack in April. Sharks are protected in Australia and attacks on humans are relatively rare, despite the country's huge coastline. Shark experts believe the motive of the shark was curiosity rather than a hunt. "It is a huge shark and if it is really motivated there probably isn't much you can do," said one shark expert in Western Australia. Around 42 percent of attacks involve surfers or windsurfers, according to the U.S.-based International Shark Attack File. Australia had 12 shark attacks in 2007, none of them fatal, among 71 shark attacks worldwide that year.

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