⚡MINI: Kangaroo Island Man Drives Himself To Hospital After Brutal Shark Attack 🦈

A surfer has been attacked by a shark at a popular tourist destination in South Australia.

The man, aged in his 50s, was bitten twice on the leg at D’Estrees Bay in an area known as The Sewer at Kangaroo Island.

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Speaker 2 (00:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
A surfer has been attacked by a shark at a
popular Kangaroo Island tourist destination. The man, aged in his fifties,
was beaten twice on the leg at Deestrey's Bay in
an area known as the Sewer's.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Good still got out. It's good still.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
I felt that deep inside of me that this is
the plan. Might be the most badass man in South Australia.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
This is crazy.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
What a hero.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
So he's surfing, first of all, surfing in your fifties.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
On KI like this is not old. Let me finish
my sentence please.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
On KI in the middle of the week like this,
boke's clearly just retired or he's going to day off orite.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
He's living the life.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
He's a grom, once a groom, always a.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Groom's are kids.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
I know, but that's that's what I said. He's like
a fifty year old grom. That's what I'm saying a gromet.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's what they call little surfa kids.

Speaker 5 (01:17):
Into the kitchen, into the not the kitchen, what's it called.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
The green room? The kitchen. The green room is where
you gave when your surfing.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
This man is out there on a Tuesday afternoon, just
surfing by himself. He gets bitten on the leg twice
by a bronze whaler shark, so not the big great
white but still still damn shu. And he goes, you
know what, I'm too far away from the hospital here.
If I call them, it's just a waste of time.
I'm just going to drive myself across the King's coat.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Mobile phone coverage probably not great where he was, probably
did a torniquet with the bodies and drove himself to
the hospital.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
An absolute legends. Now this yesterday in our newsroom Channel ten.
Usually what happens in all the newsrooms is we've got
scanners so we can see, like when the ambulance gets
called to places, and then we can put in calls
to the police and say, hey, what's happened here?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
What do you know about this?

Speaker 5 (02:05):
Has boky retired that thing?

Speaker 4 (02:07):
That sort of stuff? No one knew about this? And
then someone got a little word about it. Nah, nothing
on the scan is nothing on the scan. Has called
the ambulance service. Nothing on the ambulance service, like they
have had to start calling people on KI. Someone's trying
to get in touch with the mayor, the local member
of parliament.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Have you heard about this bloke that got bid by
a shark.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Because he just diyed it because the ambulances didn't know
anything about him until he rocked up at the hospital
with a shark bite in his leg.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
That is so hardcore.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
What a gangster, What an absolute gromt of a gangster.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
You are so bad