Shark attack victim stitches himself up, goes for a beer

Don't try this at home.

Junior doctor James Grant, 24, was spearfishing with his buddies near Colac Bay, New Zealand, when he felt a tug on his leg.

"I looked behind to see who it was and got a bit of a shock," Grant told Radio New Zealand.

Although it was hard to see through the murky waters, Grant believes he was attacked by a sevengill shark.

"[I thought] bugger, now I have to try and get this thing off my leg."

Grant fought off the shark with his diving knife.

When he got to shore, he discovered 5-centimetre-long bite marks on his leg. The shark's teeth had cut through 7 millimetres of neoprene.

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He tried to get his friends' attention, but they shrugged him off, assuming he was joking.

"I thought surely he hasn't been bitten, there's no way he has been bitten, he's got to be taking the piss," Grant's friend Mackley Lindsay said.

So Grant did what any resourceful junior doctor would do: Using a needle and thread from his first-aid kit, he stitched himself up.

"What I did was I just put a couple of little stitches in to take it back together," he told Reuters.

His leg still dripping with blood, Grant then went to a local tavern for a pint of beer with his buddies.

Warren Bevin at the Colac Bay Tavern told Reuters that Grant's "mates were kicking around laughing and he brought out the big first aid kit and got a little bandage out."

Grant said a friend of his, a surgeon at the hospital where he works, finished up his handiwork. He doesn't believe the puncture wounds will leave much scarring.

When the stitches come out, Grant plans on returning to the water.

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