White pointer spat out bleeding boy

Press, 2 September 1977, Page 6

White pointer spat out bleeding boy

NZPA - Reuter Adelaide,: A young surfer yesterday)' spoke of how a 6m white I pointer shark spat him out 1 after attacking him in deep water on Wednesday. Phillip Lance Horley, aged 17, of Scarboro, Perth, is in • Ceduna Hospital, South Aus- I tralia, with badly-gashed} thighs, legs, and knees. ii “I was surfing with some] I friends when I felt a bigii (bang,” he said. “Then I saw] a big, grey shape in the), water. The shark grabbed! ,my legs and pushed me, still) ,on my board, about five' ■metres across the water. It! .pulled me under and started I swimming in circles. “I thought I was finished. Then, suddenly, the shark seemed to spit me out.” :! After releasing the youth • the turned on his ■isurfboard and snapped it in .two. i Phillip's friend, Luke,

• Smith, aged 16, who was on jholiday with him. said the |water had “turned red with blood” as the shark earned Phillip under. “Phillip started to swim back to the beach — about 100 metres away,” Luke said. “But he was finding it hard going. I was a bit toe }far away to be of immediate lassistance.” | Another board rider (closer to the struggling and I badly-mauled surfer, paddlec [across and pulled Phillip on to his back. ! The rescuer then paddlec 'ashore, keeping the bleeoinj, I youth afloat. Surfers on the bead carried Phillip to a nearby van and set off for Ceduns Hospital while anothei surfer called an ambulance. The ambulance met thi van half-way. Phillip’s condition at Ca duna Hospital yesterday wi i “satisfactory."