However, you have to actually see the shark and prepare for it to be able to hit a shark in the nose before he bites you. Sharks don't like the taste of people anyway. It takes them one bite to realize they don't want to eat you. But, often by then it is too late for the people to survive the attack.
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surfer Charlie Frye is lucky to be alive after punching a shark in the
face using a maneuver he once saw a surf champion use, he said. “I feel
[like] there …
Well-schooled doctor punches shark in the face to escape attack
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Coming upSurfer punches shark in face to escape attack
Amateur surfer Charlie Frye is lucky to be alive after punching a shark
in the face using a maneuver he once saw a surf champion use, he said.
“I feel [like] there was a hand grabbing me, shaking me. I feel like I
was going to be eaten alive, like I generally thought I was going to
die, like I was eaten by a shark,” Frye, a 25-year-old British doctor
living in Australia, told 9News in Australia.
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Frye and three of his doctor friends were surfing Monday off Avoca Beach, which is 90 miles north of Sydney.
"I thought it was a friend goofing around,” Frye, who was bitten on the
shoulder, said. “I turned and I saw this shark come out of the water and
breach its head.”
In the life-or-death moment, the amateur surfer thought of Australian
pro surfer Mick “White Lightning” Fanning, who famously fought off a shark attack at a 2015 surfing championship in South Africa by punching it in the face.
“I felt something on my shoulder like a big thud,” Frye told 9News. “The
shark's head come out of the water and I just punched the shark in the
face.”
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At first, Frye didn’t realize his puncture wounds were bleeding. His
friends then drove him to a hospital, which is where they all also
worked, he said.
If he ever meets Fanning, Frye said, he “owes him a beer.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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