The Animals Are Angry

An Australian abalone diver was partially swallowed by a Great White shark and lived to tell the tale. You just can't make this up.

"Half my body was in its mouth," Nerhus told Australian television's Nine Network.

Nerhus said he fought desperately.

"I felt down to the eye socket with my two fingers and poked them into the socket," he said. "The shark reacted by opening its mouth and I just tried to wriggle out. It was still trying to bite me. It crushed my goggles into my nose and they fell into its mouth."

He said he managed to finally escape the shark's jaws after jabbing at its eye with a chisel he used to chip abalone from rocks and was still holding despite the attack.

Nerhus, who estimated he spent two minutes inside the shark's mouth, said his chest was protected from the shark's rows of teeth by a lead-lined vest used to weight him down in the water.

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Edit: This isn't the article that was in today's paper, despite it being on the Seattle Times website. The article in the paper wasn't as sensationalized and had more details. I'll try to find that one and post a link.