A surfer was attacked by a shark off the Western Australia coast and survived, local media reported.
The 34-year-old surfer Jon Hines was surfing around the Gascoyne coast, located around 750 miles north of Perth when he was attacked, reported the Herald Sun. He received serious injuries in the attack but was still conscious when he was taken ashore.
Fisheries Department spokesperson Tony Cappelluti told The Australian, “Apparently, when the shark first attacked him, it bit him on the abdomen.”
He added, “He tried to fend it off.” Cappelluti said that the shark came back grabbed his arm and that is how his arm was injured.
The surfer was rescued by local surfing legend Jeff Goulden, also known as “Camel.”
“He was yelling out ’my arm, my arm,'” Goulden told the West Australian.
“I paddled really fast toward the shore, it took just like a minute or two to get him ashore, I paddled really fast.”
Tim Meecham, the owner of a campsite near the site where Hines was attacked, told The West Australian that the incident was a “random sort of thing.”
“There were people further out and people closer in from where the man was surfing,” he said.
There have been five deadly shark attacks within 10 months in Australia.
