Husband Saves Wife From Shark Attack by Punching the Shark Repeatedly

On Australia's east coast a 35-year-old-woman was attacked by a big white shark while surfing. Seeing this, her husband repeatedly punched the shark until it let the wife go. The woman received serious injuries on the leg as she was rushed to a local hospital and thereon a bigger one for surgery.

Key Highlights

• A woman suffered serious leg injuries in a shark attack on Shelly Beach at Port Macquarie

• She was saved by her husband who repeatedly punched the shark until it let her go

• Australia had 5 fatal shark attacks in 2020, which is higher than it's average of 3 in a year.

New South Wales police said the woman and a man were surfing when she was bitten on the right calf and the back of her thigh. Her companion then punched the estimated three-meter (10-foot) shark until it released her.

Surf Life Saving chief executive Steven Pearce said there had been some "really serious and tragic shark encounters over the past couple of months along the coastline".

"So to paddle out of your own safety zone, into an area where you know there is a large shark, I think is amazing... a tremendous act of bravery," he said. (Sky News)

The country has witnessed 5 fatal shark attacks in 2020 which is higher than the country's average of three deadly attacks a year.

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