A man in a canoe ventured out to deep water where he wasn’t supposed to. Witnesses and accounts say that he mistakenly provoked the shark by grabbing its tail. He wasn’t exactly sure it was a shark, but rather a large fish and found him self curious to see what it was.
The shark turned around quickly and started the attack. The shark at large was a bull shark which are common in these parts. The man tells Dispatch:
“I just jumped out of my canoe and dived down and grabbed the fish by its tail … I got a shock of my life when I saw a big Zambezi shark, charging towards me,” Tebbutt told the Saturday Dispatch yesterday.
“The shark quickly turned around, grabbed my left arm and lacerated it. Within a split second, I saw my blood in the river.
“I just smacked the shark as hard as I could with my right arm to get it to let go of me,” said Tebbutt.
“I was in the water holding my arm which was bleeding profusely, and the shark started coming towards me very fast.
“I immediately jumped out of the water onto the rocks and it missed me … I could have been dead by now,” he said.
“I was shocked that I had overcome the shark. Its strength was unbelievable.
“In my 30 years in surfing, I never thought I would have this kind of experience,” he said.
