JOHANNESBURG : Australian surf champion Mick Fanning has escaped horrific meeting with huge Shark while surfing in South Africa.
The 34-year-old surfer was competing in the final heat of a world tour event at Jeffreys Bay in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province on Sunday when a looming black fin appeared behind him.
“It came up and got stuck in my leg rope,” he said in a television interview after miraculously escaping unscathed.
“I was kicking and screaming. I just saw a fin. I didn’t see teeth. I was waiting for the teeth to come at me as I was swimming. I punched it in the back.”
