A young British doctor has described punching a shark that leapt from the water to attack him as he surfed off Australias eastern coast, escaping with bite marks to his shoulder and arm.
The 25-year-old, named in local media as Charlie Fry, was surfing with three others at Avoca Beach in New South Wales state north of Sydney on Monday when the shark "jumped out of the water and hit him in the right shoulder", police said.