Australia appears to be in the grip of Jaws fever at the moment with a number of shark attacks being reported over the past month or so.
I came across this interesting story being reported by Reuters news agency about a remarkable escape by a hard-as-nails Aussie Navy Diver.
The 31-year-old punched a shark as he was being attacked in Sydney Harbour last Wednesday (Feb 4) while on anti-terrorism training in waters around the Garden Island Naval Base,
"The attack occurred very quickly. Our diver punched the shark, I believe, a couple of times. The shark then disappeared very quickly," Australian Fleet Commander Rear Admiral Nigel Coates told reporters.
"It was all over, I'm told, in a few seconds."
The diver suffered severe injuries to his right hand and leg.
"The patient said he saw something big and grey underneath him just before the attack," an ambulance spokesman said.
There have been at least four other shark attacks in Australia this summer, one of them fatal. Although it must be stressed, these attacks should not be used as justification for a marine slaughter. As divers we'd all sooner see them in their rightful habitat and not dangling from a fisherman's pole or sliced up and sans fins on a butcher's table.
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