7NEWS: Surfer Jack Frost says he punched shark in head during great white attack in Margaret River
“But then I started punching it in the side towards the gills and I must have got one punch in where it’s touch sensitive and it just shot down into the depths.”
Jack Frost was transferred to a hospital in Bunbury after being attacked by a shark in Margaret River.The wild shark encounter was recorded by a fixed beach camera usually used to look at conditions. Frost, from Ballina in New South Wales, quickly gathered himself and began the 100m paddle towards the shore, not yet willing to look at his leg, which had a “good gash” and a “couple puncture wounds”.
When he felt it was safe the experienced diver and fisherman used his own leg rope as a tourniquet and continued back to the safety of land.Back on shore, Frost was driven by a stranger to a hospital while an off-duty nurse tended to the wound and called ahead so doctors were up to speed when he arrived.Frost was stitched up and, nine days later, is now back on his feet — but not fully recovered.
He has delayed travel plans but expects to return to the water to dive, fish and surf relatively quickly.
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