Swimmer’s shark attack

THE man bitten by a shark off Cape Cod this month said he escaped by punching the predator in the gills after it clamped down on his leg.

William Lytton said he’d been swimming in 2m to 3m of water off Truro, Massachusetts, when he felt an incredible pain shoot through his left leg and quickly realised he was being attacked by a shark.

“I initially was terrified, but, really, there was no time to think,” said the 61-year-old neurologist from Scarsdale, New York. “It doesn’t feel like I did anything heroic. A lot of this was luck.”