Australian surfer Mick Fanning returns home after wrestling shark in South Africa
Mick Fanning’s shark-wrestling exploits were broadcast live. (Source: Reuters)
Mick Fanning sat up on a high stool, straight backed and good humored, recounting the story he will be telling for the rest of his days, about how he fought off a shark with his bare hands during a surfing competition in South Africa.
It sounds like the plot of a movie, but this three-time world champion is no fictional Crocodile Dundee-style character. He’s the real thing: his shark-wrestling exploits were broadcast live.
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Fanning arrived back in Australia on Tuesday and appeared at a news conference in Sydney before heading home to the Gold Coast, the burgeoning city surrounding Surfers Paradise beach.
He says: “It was so close. I’m doing OK, though. I haven’t got a scratch on me. Just more of an emotional, mental sort of trauma right now.”
