{"id":437,"date":"2020-08-21T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2020-08-22T03:45:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T03:45:09","slug":"australian-surfer-punches-shark-saves-wife-from-jaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/australian-surfer-punches-shark-saves-wife-from-jaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Super fella! Australian man paddled over, jumped off board, onto the shark, repeatedly punching 9ft shark until it released his wife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/surfer-punches-shark-to-save-shark.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/great-white-shark.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/mark-rapley-chantelle-doyle-macquarie-shark-attack_n_5f38cc97c5b6959911e58aba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cI did what anyone would have done,\u201d he said. \u201cThe shark was latched onto her leg. I just jumped into the water.\u201d<\/a><br>\nAn Australian surfer repeatedly punched a shark in the head until the giant fish let go of his wife in an attack Saturday. Chantelle Doyle, 35, was surfing north of Sydney with her husband when she was bitten two to three times in the leg in an attack by a juvenile great white shark close to 9 feet long.<br><br>\n\n\u201cThis fella paddled over and jumped off his board onto the shark and hit it to get it to release her \u2014 and then assisted her back into the beach,\u201d Steven Pearce, CEO of Surf Life Saving New South Wales, told the Sydney Morning Herald. \u201cPretty full on. Really heroic.\u201d<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehansindia.com\/news\/international\/australian-man-repeatedly-punches-shark-until-it-releases-his-wifes-leg-639858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;He started laying into the shark because it wouldn&#8217;t let go,&#8221; Jed Toohey told the Daily Telegraph. &#8220;He saved her life&#8230; He was really incredible.&#8221;<\/a><br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nPhoto courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/lifestyle\/surfer-repeatedly-punches-great-white-shark-to-save-wife-bitten-multiple-times-you-just-react\/\">totalcelnews.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehansindia.com\/news\/international\/australian-man-repeatedly-punches-shark-until-it-releases-his-wifes-leg-639858\">thehansindia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) \u201cI did what anyone would have done,\u201d he said. \u201cThe shark was latched onto her leg. I just jumped into the water.\u201d An Australian surfer repeatedly punched a shark in the head until the giant fish let go of his wife in an attack Saturday. Chantelle Doyle, 35, was<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/australian-surfer-punches-shark-saves-wife-from-jaws\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,12],"tags":[44,52,17,53,60],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-story-teller","post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-life-nature-society","category-quotes-and-philosophy","category-us-and-world","tag-animals","tag-people","tag-quote","tag-sports","tag-true-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}