Shark chomps on surfer's leg
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- A British surfer attacked by a great white shark described yesterday how he kicked and lashed out wildly to free his leg from the shark's jaws, which sliced his flesh "like a knife through butter." Chris Sullivan, pictured at right, was surfing with friends Monday when the four-metre shark attacked. "It came up slow and I saw its eyes and it looked really dark grey," said Sullivan, sitting in a wheelchair at a clinic. "I turned and I saw the underneath of its belly. Then I saw its mouth. Then it grabbed hold of my leg." "I started lashing out, hitting it. I think I kicked it. I pulled the leg out. It felt like a knife through butter and I thought 'Oops,' " said the school teacher who has travelled the world in pursuit of his surfing passion. Sullivan, 32, said he managed to stay on his surf board and catch a wave back to shore, where a local veterinary surgeon who had also been surfing applied an emergency tourniquet to his leg. Sullivan needed 200 stitches in his calf.
Source: Edmonton Sun
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