Australian man attacked by shark twice in ten years

Some would call this Australian man completely insane for getting back in the water after being attacked by a shark not once, but twice.

Greg Pickering’s first shark attack happened in 2004 when he was diving in the waters north of Perth. A bronze whaler shark had bit him on the leg, mauling his shin and calf.

His second attack occurred in October of last year. Pickering, now 55, was diving for abalone off the coast of Western Australia’s Cape Arid national park when he was attacked, this time by a great white.

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The shark bit him in the head and had been tearing through his shoulder. He didn’t know what was happening but he remembered one thing in particular that haunts him still to this day: The sound.

“The sound of the bones. The teeth-on-bone, sort of thrashing sound,” he says in an interview as he recalls the attack.

Pickering never even saw the shark but it was discovered that it was definitely a great white because of the tooth that was found embedded in Pickering’s eye cavity.

Suddenly, in the middle of the attack, the shark stopped.

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“I don’t know why, but I was definitely given another chance,” he says.

Pickering has made a promise to his four daughters that he will not return to a full-time diving career.

Or maybe count your blessings instead Mr. Pickering, and choose a new line of work? Just a thought ...

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