Australian Surfing Champion Mick Fanning was chased from the
water by a shark in his first surf back home since last week’s terrifying brush
with a white pointer in South Africa, it has been revealed.
Fanning’s brave return to the waves was filmed by a 60
Minutes crew at Hastings Point on the Tweed Coast on Saturday as his mother Liz
watched nervously from the beach.
But a promotional advertisement for the program, being aired
on Sunday night, shows the triple world champion frantically scrambling onto a
jet ski in the line-up.
From the safety of the sand, a concerned Fanning tells
reporter Peter Stefanovic he has just seen a shark.
“There he is, straight out -I just saw it,’’ Fanning tells
Stefanovic.
It is believed a rattled Fanning and the 60 Minutes crew
then went to another beach to film the rest of the segment
On the same day Fanning returned to the water, a large shark
menaced surfers at his home break of Snapper Rocks on the Queensland/NSW
border.
Ballina beaches were also closed this week after four large
sharks were seen lurking off the coast.
On Tuesday, after his third surf back, Fanning told The
Courier-Mail that his confidence was returning ‘each and every day’.
“The ocean’s a pretty amazing place and it’s just good to be
back in the water,’’ he said.
Fanning has announced he will resume competition at the next
World Surf League event, the
Billabong Pro in Tahiti, next month.
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