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A British swimmer has revealed how he managed to fight it great White shark attacked while swimming off the coast of los angeles,
chris murray was trying to swim 20 miles Catalina Channel at about 1:20 a.m. on Tuesday, September 30, when the juvenile Great White sank its teeth into his outstretched hand.
He managed to free himself but the shark came back a second time, damaging his leg.
Mr Murray was taken to hospital by the fire service, where he received 20 stitches in his arm. talking to CBS NewsHe said he was “outraged” by the incident after six months of swimming training.
He told the news channel that the shark, believed to be a juvenile, first landed on his hand: “I shook it, it was moving around me a little bit, and I remember it feeling like pure muscle.”
Shortly afterwards, she felt his jaws once again clamp around her, this time on her leg. “I felt another attack and stiffness in my leg,” he said. “I managed to hit it pretty hard with my heel, causing it to stretch.”
Mr Murray swam out to meet his team on a dive boat to inspect the damage. When asked if he knew he had been attacked by a shark, he said, “No, I just knew that something had bitten me.”
When his team shined their searchlights in the water below, they realized that a great white was circling. Mr Murray was taken to hospital where he was treated for his injuries.
“A 3- to 4-foot-long white shark bit his leg and then took off,” fire boat pilot Shawn Corby told CBS News. He said such attacks off the coast of Los Angeles were “extremely rare”.
“I didn’t feel any pain, just adrenaline,” Mr Murray said.
The long-distance swimmer was attempting the so-called “Triple Crown of open water swimming”, which also includes a grueling 21-mile swim across the English Channel, which he has already completed, and a 28.5-mile swim around Manhattan in New York.
He said he had become “angry” at being unable to complete the challenge.
“I wasn’t shocked at all,” he told CBS. “The only thing I would say is that I found really disturbing.”
Asked if he would attempt the challenge again, Mr Murray said: “Never say never.”