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MSN report: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16785242/?GT1=8921
SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian diver on Wednesday told of how he wriggled free from the jaws of a Great White Shark that had half-swallowed him head first, saying he could feel the sharks teeth sink into his weight vest.
Ive never felt fear like it til I was inside those jaws, with those teeth getting dragged across my body, abalone diver Eric Nerhus told the Nine television network from his hospital bed a day after the attack off Australias south-east coast.
Nerhus, 41, was partly swallowed by the 9-foot shark when it attacked at less than three feet below the surface, but said he managed to fight his way free by jabbing the sharks eye with his free left hand.
I went straight into its mouth, front onwards. My shoulders, my head and one arm went straight down into its throat. I could feel the teeth crunching up and down on my weight vest, he said.
Nerhus said he was collecting abalone when the shark struck, knocking the regulator, which supplies oxygen, from his mouth and leaving him inside the sharks open jaws and throat.
I put my left arm down the side of its face because my head and shoulders and right arm were right down in its throat. Half my body was in its mouth, Nerhus said.
I felt down to the eye socket with my stiff fingers. I poked my fingers into the eye socket, which the shark reacted to in a way that it opened its mouth a bit, and I just tried to wriggle out, he said.
As he pulled his head from the sharks mouth, it crushed his goggles against his face, leaving Nerhus with a broken nose.
