Surfer tells of punching shark to escape attack

"At some stage it had me in its jaw. I was shouting and punching it while it attacked me."

A surfer was lucky to escape with a superficial scratch on his back, a torn wetsuit and teeth marks in his board when he was attacked by a shark off an Australian beach.

Marcel Brundler was surfing near Lorne, 140km south-west of the Victoria state capital, Melbourne, when what he estimated was a 3m great white shark grabbed his board.