Shark rips off a huge chunk of fisherman's leg after his friend caught it and dragged it to land
A fisherman lost a huge chunk of his flesh after being attacked by a shark that went straight for his leg. Forty five-year-old Jamie Hall was out fishing last weekend off a jetty in Darwin, Australia when he realized one of his friends had caught a shark, Express reports.
Hall climbed down to the lower level of the jetty in a bid to help his friend out, and the two men managed to drag the beast onto the landing platform. At one point, Hall grabbed the shark by the tail and in a sudden reaction, the predator swung around and clamped its teeth on his leg.
"I was like: 'He bit me!' and then I smacked his head against the steel," he told 9News. "It was bleeding and carrying on - there's still lots of blood now." Hall said he was unsure of the shark's species but said it was only a meter long and bronze in color.
"This sort of shark had a bigger mouth," he added.
Hall now plans to gift the shark to a friend who makes jewelry out of their skeletons. At first, the fisherman did not think the bite was critical. He jumped into the sea to wash the gaping wound instead of heading straight for the hospital. "I was just going to go home and give it some Betadine and that would do it," he recalled.
But one of his friends insisted on calling an ambulance, and Hall obliged. He was subsequently rushed to the Royal Darwin Hospital, where doctors told him the bite was serious and he had to spend two nights recovering in a ward. "They've removed dead skin and stuffed it full of bits and pieces and then wrapped it up and that's it," he explained.
That said, Hall, who is yet to recover fully, is already planning on his next fishing trip. "We get GT's, queenies, barra, and coral trout - there's generally a good spread of species there," he told 9News. "I've caught a swag of sharks there before and I've never been bitten by one, so you know, what's the odds?"
