It’s hard not to enjoy a story like this. Surfer punches shark then catches wave:
Michael Bedford was knocked off his board by the shark, believed to have been a great white, which then came back for a second charge, witnesses said.
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.
That was from the Sydney Morning Herald. The Australian Broadcast Company story took on a different tone:
A 41-year-old man is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a white pointer shark near Walpole, on Western Australia’s South Coast.
Michael Bedford was treated for deep wounds to his right knee and shock after the attack which happened at Conspicuous Cliffs 15 kilometres east of Walpole yesterday afternoon.
Mr Bedford was rescued by a fellow surfer and a group of local fishermen who were able to tie a tourniquet around his leg before the ambulance arrived.
Note how the dour story refers to the great white as a white pointer.