NEW: Durban Great White shark attack survivor tells his story

Grant Wardell, a Durban North man who went fishing about 1.2km offshore of Westbrook Beach, north of Durban, says he is thankful to be alive after a 3-metre-long Great White shark catapulted him from his paddle ski boat and left a shark tooth in the boat as memoir!

Despite being toppled from his paddle ski by the force of the attack on Boxing Day, Wardell miraculously survived unscathed, he told Traveller24.

He said he and his bother Jamie had gone out fishing early on Saturday morning, 26 December. "We were using live bait that we trawled behind our surf skis," he said.



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