Australian Swimmer Survives Shark Attack by Poking Shark in Eye

Jason Cull was attacked by a 16 foot shark on Sunday.  Laying on his hospital bed recovering from deep lacerations, 37 year old Cull claimed to have survived the attack by poking an eye of the shark.

Cull claims to have seen a shadow in the water where he was swimming at Middleton Beach in southwestern Australia on Saturday.  Initially he though it was a dolphin swimming around him.  “It was much bigger than a dolphin when it came up.”  Cull stated that “It banged straight into me – I realized what it was, it was a shark.”

Cull told reporters what happened, saying, “I sort of punched it, and it grabbed me by the leg and dragged me under the water.  I just remember being dragged backwards underwater.  I felt along it.  I found its eye and I poked it in the eye, and that’s when it let go.”

A lifeguard spokesman for the beach, Tom Marron, says Joanne Lucas was the volunteer lifesaver who helped Cull out of the water after the attack.  The shark is believed to have been a great white and was one of three reported shark sightings that day.  The beach was closed following the attack.

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