Amazing footage shows the moment Australian surfing legend Mick Fanning fought off a shark that attacked him during a competition. Fanning, a three-time world champion, was knocked from his board just moments into the final round of the J-Bay Open in South Africa.
Fanning said: ‘I was just sitting there and I felt something just get stuck in my leg rope, and I was kicking trying to get it away,’ the surfing star said later (right). The 34-year-old described the moment he realised the shark was behind him as terrifying, saying: ‘I was waiting for the teeth to come at me.’
