A 33-year-old surfer known only as Gary was “having a sunset surf off south Bondi about 7.30pm when he felt something brush his arm while paddling back out to catch another wave” according to a story in the Sydney Herald.
Realising he had been bitten, he called out for help to a group of nearby surfers who came to his aid, paddling him to shore and carrying him to safety onto the beach. One of them used the leg-rope of his surfboard and wrapped it as a tourniquet around the man’s heavily bleeding arm.
A doctor and nurse just happened to be walking by and were able to help stabilize the surfer and get him ready for transport. Sadly, the surfer has lost his hand above his left wrist. This is the second shark attack in Sydney this week. In that attack a diver lost his right hand. Guess the shark was going for a pair.
[Link: Sydney Herald and Times Online]
