Mike Morita survived a shark assault in Kewalo Basin in Oahu (Image: AP)
A surfer who misplaced his foot after being bitten by a shark survived by giving the predator a ‘bear hug’.
Mike Morita, 58, was browsing in Kewalo Basin in Oahu on Sunday morning when he was attacked by an 8-foot tiger shark. Morita was finally rescued by fellow surfers who make a tourniquet from their surfboard leashes out within the water.
Morita’s son Kamu in an replace on a GoFundMe web page for his father wrote that ‘because of the assistance of the courageous surfers, first responders, and workers at Queens Hospital, my dad can dwell one other day together with his household’.
Kamu defined how Morita was capable of survive the vicious assault.
Mike Morita received free from the shark after giving it a ‘bear hug’ across the gills (Image: Fb/kamu.morita)
‘Someway after he was getting tossed round, he form of got here face-to-face with (the shark) together with his foot nonetheless in its mouth and he was capable of form of bear hug it and dig the gills and eyes and that’s actually when it lastly let go,’ Morita’s son advised Hawaii Information Now.
Morita stated he was ready for waves when he felt a chew on his leg.
‘It wasn’t actually like a chomp. It was simply stress,’ Morita advised KHON. ‘I can really feel the power of it and instantly I knew it was a shark.’
Morita recalled the second that the shark let go.
Mike Morita has excessive spirits and ‘has accepted his damage’ (Image: Kamu Morita)
‘I wrapped my arm round it and my physique round it. And at that time I used to be attempting to go for the eyes however my hand ended up by the gills,’ Morita stated. ‘In order quickly as I touched by the gills it let go.’
Morita’s mates paddled towards him to assist, regardless of the presence of the shark.
‘They stated after they reached me, the shark was nonetheless on me, in order that they have been scared for his or her lives too however when it lastly let go, they have been there for me,’ Morita stated. ‘They have been in shock additionally.’
Docs have been pressured to amputate Morita’s proper foot.
‘His spirits are excessive and he has accepted his damage,’ states the GoFundMe web page, which had raised greater than $80,000 as of Friday night.
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Originally posted 2023-04-14 23:52:50.