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Killer Beaches 2008: Australia's Latest Shark Attack

May 13, 2008 at 12:30 PM | by | Comment (1)

We love Australia. It's gotta be the only country in the world where a swimmer who gets attacked by a shark laughs off the experience from his hospital bed.

After the 16-foot animal--believed to be a great white--bit swimmer Jason Cull on Saturday, he calmly tried to work himself out of trouble:

It banged straight into me ... I sort of punched it, and it grabbed me by the leg and dragged me under the water. I just remember being dragged backwards underwater. I felt along it, I found its eye and I poked it in the eye, and that's when it let go.

Ah, the old poke-it-in-the-eye trick: Works every time!

As for Middleton Beach, it was closed after the attack, and a couple more sharks were reported in the wake of Cull's encounter. Sounds like a good candidate for our Killer Beaches Map.

Related Stories:
· Australian Pokes Shark in Eye to Survive [AP, via Google]
· Sharks coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: natmeister]

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Middleton Beach

My grandmother lived down near Middleton Beach so I've swum there often - this is totally the first sign of a shark there ever. Weird. Also the nice part of this story is that it was a 50-year-old woman who rescued the guy!
But the big news in Oz is definitely the poke in the eye trick, because it's worked for a couple of people lately :-)
amandak on May 14, 2008 at 8:24 AM #Permalink

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