Australian fisherman stunned after nine foot shark leaps into his boat https://t.co/vah1lhsu8b
— The Independent (@Independent) May 29, 2017
An Australian fisherman caught a far bigger fish than he hoped for when a 2.7-metre (nine-foot) great white shark leapt into his boat, knocking him off his feet.
Terry Selwood, 73, was left with a badly bruised and bleeding right arm where the airborne shark struck him with a pectoral fin as it landed on him on the deck of the 4.5m (15ft) power boat on Saturday off Evans Head, 450 miles north of Sydney.
Mr Selwood sprung up on the gunnel at the bow of the boat to avoid the thrashing shark and steadied himself by clinging to the tubular metal frame of the sun shelter, known as a bimini.
“I didn’t give it a chance to look me in the eyes. I wanted to get up and get on top of the gunnel because it was thrashing around madly,” Mr Selwood told Australian Broadcasting Corp…
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