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<\/p>\nA quick thinking diver has lived to tell the tale of his encounter with a Great White Shark off the coast of Western Australia<\/p>\n
Tanveer Dhillon was diving off Ocean Reef on Sunday when he suddenly felt a nudge from behind.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first instinct was \u2018why is my dive buddy kicking me?\u2019 so I turned around and when I saw that it was not a person, it was a shark, it was sheer panic,\u201d Mr Dhillon said.<\/p>\n
To his horror it was a shark that had rammed him into a sandbank.<\/p>\n
Tanveer quickly looked for refuge, wedging himself underneath a ledge to hide from the shark.<\/p>\n
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Tanveer Dhillon was diving off Ocean Reef on Sunday when a shark began circling him and rammed him into a sandbank. Picture: 7 NEWS<\/p>\n
The shark circled him for 10 minutes, with his air tank depleting, the shark took one last look.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could see the great white grinning straight at me \u2014 my heart was in my mouth and now that memory is forever etched in my mind and I still feel the shivers when I see that moment,\u201d Mr Dhillon said to 7NEWS.<\/p>\n
When the shark was finally out of sight, Mr Dhillon called his dive mates, urging them to swim to the safety of their boat.<\/p>\n
The close call hasn\u2019t put Mr Dhillon off his love for diving, but he has admitted he is counting his lucky stars after the ordeal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the shark\u2019s territory and we are just visitors over there and understanding that we have to be mindful of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Tanveer Dhillon hopes divers can learn from his quick thinking. Picture: 7 NEWS<\/p>\n
Mr Dhillon hopes that his story will educate other divers that remaining calm and collected during a crisis is they key.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I would have done the knee jerk reaction and gone straight for the surface I feel fairly confident he would have gone for me,\u201d Mr Dhillon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A quick thinking diver has lived to tell the tale of his encounter with a Great White Shark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,200807,200808,128,200806,338],"class_list":["post-371264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mr-dhillon","tag-quick-thinking","tag-science","tag-tanveer-dhillon","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}