The brave husband of a woman attacked by a great white shark on Australia’s east coast said he punched the animal instinctively without thinking he was saving her life.
When a juvenile great white latched on to Chantelle Doyle’s right calf, Mark Rapley started repeatedly punching it to save his wife’s life in Port Macquarie.
Mr Rapley said his wife was surfing a few metres away from him when the shark attacked her.
As his wife recovers from surgery, Mr Rapley told 9 News Sydney it felt like “punching a brick wall”.
“You see the mother of your child, your support, everything… so you just react… all I could think is just ‘get off’,” he said.
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