IN JAWS OF DEATH
BLACK DIVER'S ESCAPE
(From "The Post's" Representative.) i SYDNEY, September 2. < After being savagely attacked by a j shark, a native diver named lona was ( admitted to hospital at Thursday < Island (Northern Australia) suffering from bites. He claimed that his head was in the shark's mouth. He said that he poked his thumbs in the shark's eyes, and the shark let him go. His condition is reported as being ' satisfactory and he will recover it ] blood-poisoning does not set in. A . doctor took two hours to stitch the ; wounds in lona's face, neck, and chest. ' I lona sat up while this was being done. He bore the marks of two rows of the , shark's teeth, and more than 150 | stitches were inserted. lona was diving from the lugger ' Sau, near Maubu Island, 70 miles from . Thursday Island. He was in two ; fathoms of water.when he saw a form , coming towards him. He thought it was a diamond fish at first. After releasing his head from the shark'o jaws he shot to the surface, and was pulled into the boat by comrades. His comrades on the boat stated that the shark was about nine ( or ten feet long. lona did not Jose ( consciousness either when the mci- \ dent occurred or when receiving mcdi- | cal attention, biit he ■stated lhat he j felt a little faint. c
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 8
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229IN JAWS OF DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 8
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