Australian surfer Lee Berryman is still recovering in hospital two days after a frightening shark encounter off Kangaroo Island, South Australia, on Tuesday.
The local tour guide had been surfing at a well-known spot in D’Estrees Bay when he suddenly felt something — believed to be a bronze whaler shark — strike the back of his leg.

"I have turned around and his nose is right near me,"Mr Berryman told Sunrise on Thursday.

"I actually did not want to punch him in the mouth. I was getting him in the side because I didn't want to go anywhere near those teeth. And I just yelled out, 'Shark!"

" just knew that I couldn't sit there so I just kept punching it until he let go."

"I pretty much looked at him right in the eyes."

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