Diver Partly Swallowed by Shark

Australian diver partly swallowed by shark, survives

SYDNEY: An Australian abalone diver told rescuers he was partly swallowed head-first by a great white shark on Tuesday but managed to fight his way free, suffering a broken nose and bite marks around the chest.

Eric Nerhus, 41, was underwater with his 25-year-old son and other divers off Cape Howe, near Eden on Australia's southeast coast, when the 3-metershark attacked.

"He stated that he was head-first into the shark," a spokeswoman for Snowy Hydro SouthCare rescue service said after airlifting the diver to hospital. "When he came to us he was conscious and alert but had a broken nose and lacerations to both sides of his torso and chest bite marks all the way around."

Nerhus told divers he didn't see the shark coming as the water was so dirty that visibility was limited. "It was black. He didn't see it coming, but he felt the bite and started getting shaken, and that's when he knew he was in the mouth of the shark," said diver Michael Mashado.

The shark bit Nerhus around the head, crushing his face mask and breaking his nose, fellow diver and friend Dennis Luobikis said. "He was actually bitten by the head...the shark swallowed his head."

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/Rest_of_World/Australian_diver_partly_swallowed_by_shark_survive s/articleshow/1409746.cms

I read in another article on this incident that the guy was wearing a lead vest for diving and THAT is why he survived. He had a lead vest on and still had shark bite on his torso!

The power of their jaws combined with those teeth make for some limb choppers. A woman in Australia last year had both arms bitten off by three(!) sharks and later died from the injuries.