SURFER FENDS OFF SHARK THAT BIT INTO HIS LEG

A man used his surfboard to fend off a shark that bit him on his calf off an Australian beach two days after a fatal attack on the Great Barrier Reef.

Lee Jonsson, a 43-year-old teacher’s aide, was bitten Wednesday at Shelly Beach off Ballina in New South Wales state. Japanese surfer Tadashi Nakahara died at the same beach in 2015 after a great white shark tore off both his legs.

Government shark experts measured the tooth imprints in Jonsson’s surfboard and concluded a juvenile great white shark 2.6 metres long was responsible.

On Monday, a shark killed a man in a harbour in the Whitsunday Islands, where two tourists were mauled in September.