Phillip Brown, 24, was airlifted to hospital after the attack, but not before a desperate and bloody race back to shore.
A Far North Queensland spearfisher says he thought he was going to die when he was attacked by a shark while diving in shallow water off the Far North Queensland coast.Phillip Brown stabbed the shark in the head after it bit him, but the predator continued to circle while the 24-year-old waited for helpMr Brown was treated at Yarrabah Hospital before being flown to Cairns for surgery
"I grabbed my little speargun, spun around and stabbed him in the top of the head with the gun and he took off."Mr Brown managed to haul himself onto a partially submerged rock but the shark had not given up."He came back two or three times trying to have a go, but I was right up in the shallow with my foot out of the water."
"We got just close enough for them to carry me up and chuck me in the back of the truck and take me up to hospital."
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