Tour guide Lee Berryman, 57, was bitten twice by the shark while surfing in South Australia\u2019s<\/a> D\u2019Estrees Bay, in an area known as The Sewer at Kangaroo Island<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d just caught a wave, [was] paddling back out… and I felt something chomping on me,\u201d he told Australia\u2019s 7News.<\/p>\n After the shark latched onto his left thigh, he began to fight back, he said. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m on a kneeboard, everything\u2019s close. His head\u2019s right there. I\u2019m shouting, showing my teeth, punching him,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Mr Berryman began swimming back to shore after the shark finally let go. But at this point he feared it \u201ccould be the end, because I had to paddle to the rocks\u201d, he said in a separate interview with 9 News. <\/p>\n The shark is suspected to be a large bronzer whaler, according to News.com.au.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n A bronze whaler shark, the variety believed to be responsible for the attack (Creative Commons \/ Robert Nyland)<\/p>\n \u201cIt probably only took me four minutes to get to the rocks, it felt like half an hour because he kept coming back. He actually had three chomps, three different lines of bites, slowly working his way to my a***,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n \u201cI could feel that he had bit me, I knew I was bitten.\u201d<\/p>\n At one point, he recalled that a seal tried to hide itself behind him as a \u201csafety device\u201d, he told the channel. <\/p>\n \u201cThat’s when I felt the shark again. The bite marks went down in deep in between some stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n Once in hospital, Mr Berryman needed 50 stitches. \u201cI wasn\u2019t pouring out blood … but it was coming through the holes in my wetsuit,\u201d he told 7 News. <\/p>\n Shark Watch South Australia said the incident happened on Tuesday at around 1:37pm local time. <\/p>\n \u201cPublic report to SWSA stating a surfer was on their way to hospital after receiving 2x shark bites from a Bronze Whaler that was chasing seals around the bay,\u201d the organisation wrote on its social media. <\/p>\n Bronzer whaler sharks are found in coastal areas and offshore in South Australia. They can weigh up to 300kg and grow up to 3.3 metres in length. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-185539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1024px-Bronze_whaler_auckland.jpg\")
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