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February 12, 2010, Friday
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AN Australian man said he feared he would be dragged out to sea when a small shark snatched his leg near a Sydney beach yesterday, but he won the tug-of-war by clinging to a rock.
Paul Welsh, 46, was standing in waist-deep water off a beach in the northern suburb of Mona Vale when the shark bit his left leg, police spokeswoman Joanne Elliott said.
"I was pushing my son onto waves and it just belted me from behind," Welsh told The Daily Telegraph newspaper. "I grabbed onto the pinnacle of a rock and held on as it tried to drag me out ... and I won."
Welsh did not see what attacked him, but a witness saw a 120-centimeter shark nearby, Elliott said.
The shark left a tooth fragment in Welsh's leg, which was later identified by NSW Primary Industries Minister Steve Whan as belonging to a wobbegong, or carpet shark, a normally docile shark species.
"It is quite possible the man stood on or spooked the shark," Whan said. "This shark is not aggressive and is not known to attack humans."
Welsh's wife took him to a hospital for treatment of minor leg wounds, Elliott said. He was released later that day.
Paul Welsh, 46, was standing in waist-deep water off a beach in the northern suburb of Mona Vale when the shark bit his left leg, police spokeswoman Joanne Elliott said.
"I was pushing my son onto waves and it just belted me from behind," Welsh told The Daily Telegraph newspaper. "I grabbed onto the pinnacle of a rock and held on as it tried to drag me out ... and I won."
Welsh did not see what attacked him, but a witness saw a 120-centimeter shark nearby, Elliott said.
The shark left a tooth fragment in Welsh's leg, which was later identified by NSW Primary Industries Minister Steve Whan as belonging to a wobbegong, or carpet shark, a normally docile shark species.
"It is quite possible the man stood on or spooked the shark," Whan said. "This shark is not aggressive and is not known to attack humans."
Welsh's wife took him to a hospital for treatment of minor leg wounds, Elliott said. He was released later that day.
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