Surfer Wrestles With A Great White Shark; It Is Not From A Hollywood Movie

Surfers being attacked by a shark have been seen in Hollywood movies. But what happens in Oregon Coast is just not another movie. A surfer wrestled with a shark that bit his leg.

Reports show that the most feared of being bitten by a shark happened on the Oregon Coast. Joe Tanner, 29 yearS old, was paddling his surfboard trying to catch a wave. Suddenly, he felt that something grabbed his leg. When he looked down, there were plenty of teeth coming from a great white shark.

Joe Tanner told Live Science that "I had just gotten out there, paddling in the surf. My feet were dangling in the water. All of a sudden, something grabbed my leg, and kind of took me off my surfboard and under."

Joe Tanner, without a doubt, fought the shark. He was thinking of punching the nose and eyes because those were the most recommended to do. But, it seems that the nose of the shark was a bit far and the eyes are too small. So, what he did was he punched the gills of the shark until the shark released him.

This is shark attack victim Joe Tanner. His brother tells me a chunk of his thigh is missing, but he won't lose his leg pic.twitter.com/An0myD9AwE

— Mike Benner (@MikeBennerKGW) October 12, 2016

Associate professor of emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore Dr. Matthew Levy said that "He's obviously incredibly lucky and incredibly cool under pressure. It's one thing to be a lifesaver and save other people's lives as a nurse and health care provider, but another to have the mental discipline and nerves of steel to direct others around him as to what to do," as reported by Yahoo! News.

Amazingly, after the shark released him, he got onto his board and screamed at the top of his lungs to get out of the water because there was a shark present. Tanner was about 180 meters or 200 yards away from the shore.

Other surfers were nearby, and he managed to make it back. As follows, Joe Tanner was thinking that the shark will follow the trail of blood coming from his legs. Upon reaching the shore, people called 911. Tanner could clearly remember that he asked people to tie a torniquet on his right leg using the leash of the surfboard, which was very helpful for his bleeding leg.

LISTEN: 911 call of yesterday's shark attack near Cannon Beach. 29yo Joe Tanner is trauma nurse at Emanuel Hosp. & said to be doing better pic.twitter.com/MFVw7NA2xC — Nina Mehlhaf (@NinaMehlhaf) October 11, 2016

With the help of six people who carried him to the parking lot, the help arrived. A helicopter and police were sent to aid him, he then was flown in by helicopter to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center.