Watch the oceanic whitetip shark biting the man on his leg
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51-year-old Alexander Kraenkl, from Austria, was diving in the Red Sea when an oceanic whitetip shark bit him on the leg.
Miraculously, Alexander survived.
Alexander told Barcroft TV: “At that moment when I tried to grab the line, I felt a really hard shock on the right side of my leg. I didn’t know what was going on. I looked down and at that moment, I saw the shark swimming away from me and I knew what had happened.”
“I was feeling really distressed. I always told my wife there was no danger when swimming with sharks because she was always more afraid of what I was doing.”
Alexander said he had been on more than 150 dives in his life and seen lots of sharks but nothing like this ever happened.
He said that it was the craziest thing that had ever happened to him.
He said: “I started to really panic because I saw this green stuff seeping out of my costume, which was obviously my blood in the water. It was a really big bite from a great monster!”
He managed to parachute himself to safety and told everyone that he had been bitten by a shark.
They all were shocked and miles away from shore.
He said: “There was so much blood. I was very lucky the bite happened on my leg, where there aren’t that many nerves.”
“At the same time, I was worried about what was going on in the water with the shark. I had family down there too. I was shouting, asking people on the boat to bring them up. I was hoping nothing was happening to them.”
Alexander’s brother-in-law, Georg Arnold, filmed the moment the oceanic whitetip shark bit Alexander.
Georg said: “Me and Alexander have been diving together for many years and we had never seen anything like this. I was super excited because I had never seen a shark-like this before.”
“I saw the shark close to Alex, but just thought it grazed his leg and was nothing serious. I saw others getting out of the water quickly, but the ladder was occupied. I was feeling uncomfortable because I had to wait my turn in the water with the shark still swimming around.”
“Once I was back on board and Alex was treated, I was relieved but also super excited to know I had filmed it all.”
The guide contacted a nearby doctor sailing on another boat. The doctor was there in a few hours with a big box of sewing equipment.
Alexander said: “Overall, I had 40 to 50 stitches in my leg. I had a sip of vodka and every time they stitched, I had a small piece of that. Now, people watch the video back and their reaction is always amazing.”
“To stop diving – this thought never crossed my mind. I was just in the wrong position, at the wrong time. My wife is not so happy with this, I must add.”
“I’m just so happy that I am still alive to enjoy life.”