I am a sucker for shark-attack stories. From Poke in the eye saves shark victim:
Eric Nerhus, a 41-year-old professional diver is in a serious but stable condition, and is expected to survive, after being half swallowed by the three-metre shark at Cape Howe, near Eden, on the NSW south coast, about 9.30am today.The shark seized Mr Nerhus by the head, crushing his face mask inwards and breaking his nose, said friend and fellow diver Dennis Luobikis.
“He was actually bitten by the head down, the shark swallowed his head,” Mr Luobikis said.
Taking a second bite, the white pointer clenched its jaws around his torso, tearing deep lacerations in either side of his body.
Against the odds, Mr Nerhus, a well-known local diver of more than five years’ experience, managed to free himself from the shark’s jaws, and was pulled back aboard the boat by his son.
Two other young divers in a nearby boat rendered immediate first aid and one radioed his father, who was flying overhead in a spotter plane, to call for emergency help.
I hadn’t heard the great white referred to as a white pointer before. By the way, a three-meter great white is fairly small, as far as great whites go.