An Australian surfer is fortunate to be alive after a run-in with a shark — but his surfboard wasn’t so lucky.
Dale Kittow was surfing at Cheynes Beach in Western Australia Wednesday afternoon when a shark rushed towards him, leaving the quick-thinking dad to use his board to fend off the predator.
“I just sat on my board and it circled me a few times before it charged at me,” Kittow, 37, told 9 News Australia.
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“I jumped off the back and shoved the board in its face and had a bit of a tussle with it.”
The creature — assumed to be an almost 10-foot bronze whaler — then bit into the board, taking out a large chunk of its fiberglass material.
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