Diver has stitches after bite
Free diver Adam Thomason is recovering after a close call with a bronze whaler shark off Geraldton left him needing stitches.
Mr Thomason, 28, was diving with friends off African Reef about 9am on Sunday when the 2.5m shark approached.
The diver had just "burleyed up" with a shark mackerel impaled on his spear gun. He said the shark took part of the fish and appeared to have swum away before returning.
"I felt the water displace," Mr Thomason said. "Then it (the shark) came up between my legs and grabbed my hand and had a couple of chomps. It pushed me out of the water and tried to swim off with the gun.
"I managed to jab it few times and it let go."
He had seven stitches to his left hand for a 5cm cut which was 1cm deep.
"One of the tendons was exposed, but I've got full movement still, which is pretty lucky," he said.
