"When you see the mother of your child, the one who supports you, the one who does all you are… You react" Mark Rapley was surfing off Port Macquarie, four hours north of Sydney when a shark caught its woman by the right leg. "He was biting his calf, he was right there and I was facing him," he says, still moved. You don't tell yourself to hit, your body reacts because you say "Let go!" let her go! "
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Straddling his wife's board, this Australian punches the animal before it lets go. Injured right leg, the 35-year-old was taken to hospital for surgery