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January 13, 2009, Tuesday
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AN Australian man fought off a shark as he snorkeled near Sydney yesterday, freeing his leg from its jaws with a punch.
"I just turned and started swinging. I think I got one on him," Steven Foggarty, 24, said after he left hospital on crutches. "I just saw the blood all over both feet and had a quick look to make sure both legs were there and they were there."
Foggarty was bitten on his right leg by the bull shark as he snorkeled in the mouth of Lake Illawarra, south of Sydney. He suffered 40 puncture wounds to his calf.
It was the third shark attack in Australia in two days.
Off Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, an Australian surfer punched a 5-meter shark in the head as he rescued his 13-year-old cousin who had been bitten on the leg and dragged beneath the water on Sunday.
The pair were surfing when the white-pointer grabbed the girl's leg and dragged her down twice. Her cousin, Syb Mundy, 20, paddled over, punched the shark, put the girl on to his surfboard with him and paddled to shore. Mundy said hitting the shark on the head "was like hitting a brick wall ?? it was that dense." "It was easily the length of a car. It was just a monster," Mundy said.
"Once it let her go she was bleeding pretty bad. There was a lot of blood in the water. I think it just didn't like the taste of her, to tell you the truth," he said.
In another near-tragedy on Sunday, a surfer on Australia's northeast coast survived a shark bite and paddled himself to shore with a 40-centimeter gash in his left thigh.
Jono Beard, 31, was surfing with friends when he was bitten.
"I just turned and started swinging. I think I got one on him," Steven Foggarty, 24, said after he left hospital on crutches. "I just saw the blood all over both feet and had a quick look to make sure both legs were there and they were there."
Foggarty was bitten on his right leg by the bull shark as he snorkeled in the mouth of Lake Illawarra, south of Sydney. He suffered 40 puncture wounds to his calf.
It was the third shark attack in Australia in two days.
Off Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, an Australian surfer punched a 5-meter shark in the head as he rescued his 13-year-old cousin who had been bitten on the leg and dragged beneath the water on Sunday.
The pair were surfing when the white-pointer grabbed the girl's leg and dragged her down twice. Her cousin, Syb Mundy, 20, paddled over, punched the shark, put the girl on to his surfboard with him and paddled to shore. Mundy said hitting the shark on the head "was like hitting a brick wall ?? it was that dense." "It was easily the length of a car. It was just a monster," Mundy said.
"Once it let her go she was bleeding pretty bad. There was a lot of blood in the water. I think it just didn't like the taste of her, to tell you the truth," he said.
In another near-tragedy on Sunday, a surfer on Australia's northeast coast survived a shark bite and paddled himself to shore with a 40-centimeter gash in his left thigh.
Jono Beard, 31, was surfing with friends when he was bitten.
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