An Australian surfer fought off a large shark and then rode a wave to safety, reports said yesterday.
Michael Bedford was knocked off his board by the shark, believed to be a great white of Jaws fame, which then came back for a second charge, witnesses were quoted as saying.
But he punched the animal and then caught a passing wave to the shore, where friends used the board’s rope as a tourniquet for bite wounds on his leg.
“He gave it a good whack he reckons, a good punch and that doesn’t surprise me knowing Mick,” said witness Lee Cummuskey, according to public broadcaster ABC.
“It is your worst nightmare and Mick’s been through it and survived so he’s just really lucky.”
Bedford had surgery after Sunday’s attack near Albany, south of Perth, and his condition was described as stable. Australia suffers several shark attacks each year, with 194 people killed over the past two centuries, records show.
(AFP)
昨天有報導指出，澳洲一名衝浪客擊退一條大鯊魚後，乘浪游向安全之地。
報導引述目擊者的話說，大白鯊把麥可•貝德福撞落浪板後又回頭攻擊。
但他用力捶打鯊魚，再趁機乘浪游回到岸邊。岸邊的朋友連忙用浪板繩充當止血帶，幫他被咬傷的腿止血。
澳洲國家廣播公司報導，目擊者李•庫穆斯基表示：「他說他給了牠一記重擊。就我認識的麥可來說，這一點都不令人驚訝。」
「那真是場可怕至極的夢魘，麥可能劫後餘生真的非常走運。」
週日在伯斯南部阿巴尼附近遭遇攻擊的貝德福，在接受手術治療後，傷勢已經穩定。澳洲每年都會發生好幾起鯊魚攻擊事件，根據報告顯示，過去兩百年來，已有一百九十四人因此身亡。
（法新社╱翻譯：林倩如）
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