After Fanning returned to Australia following his terrifying shark encounter in South Africa last week, he was again chased from the water at Hastings Point on the Tweed Coast on Saturday.
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September 2014 – Bianca Freeman attacked by a bull shark while swimming in the Nerang River after a few drinks.
As Mr Ison paddled back to shore, the shark bit his leg and knocked him off his board before the surfer wrestled it away.
Beach walkers saved the victim’s life by using surfboard leg ropes as tourniquets to slow the bleeding before paramedics arrived.
“The coverage of this highly unusual event should not be used as an excuse to mount further campaigns to kill even more sharks”, The Guardian quoted the founder of the Virgin Group as saying about Mick Fanning’s shark attack video.
Detective Inspector Cameron Lindsay said the surfer “actually fought off the shark”.
Officials said Ison was one of two people surfing around 100 metres off shore.
Mr Bennett said mayors in the region were meeting in Ballina on Friday to discuss strategies to cope with the growing shark menace. Images of Mr Ison’s punctured surf board show a large bite mark and a shark expert from the Department of Primary Industries has confirmed the predator was a great white. Mr Fanning survived unscathed.
“He got in a couple of punches – he told us that when we were trying to give him first aid”.
He was taken by ambulance to a hospital in serious but stable condition.
“There he is”, says Fanning pointing to the ocean and telling a reporter he has seen a shark.
The attack comes just days after a scallop diver was killed by a shark off Maria Island in the southern state of Tasmania as his daughter watched. “Straight out, I just saw it”.
A former boxer who fought off a great white shark at a northern NSW beach has suffered complications during surgery.
It’s understood that two surfers went to his rescue.
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July 31, 2015: Man is mauled by a shark at Evans Head, south of Ballina, suffering a wound to his leg.
