A SURFER says he was saved from a shark attack by a timely wave, but not before the predator bit through his leg rope.
Aaron Seare, 31, was surfing at Levys Beach near Warrnambool in western Victoria yesterday morning and had caught only two waves when he spotted something about 30m away.
"I wasn't too sure what it was," he said today.
"I was only watching the movement for a second before it's turned and come straight at me.
I felt a tug on my leg rope but a wave picked me up and washed me back to the beach. I really freaked out."
It wasn't until Mr Seare reached shore that he discovered his leg rope had been bitten in two.
"I realised that was pretty close," he said.
Local fishermen said the marks on the rope were those of a sevengill or great white shark.
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