Diver, 20, left with shark’s TEETH wedged in arm after savage attack as horror pics show aftermath

A DIVER who survived a savage shark onslaught was near with the beast's teeth wedged successful his limb arsenic horrific pictures amusement the grisly aftermath.

Angus Kockott, 20, was snorkelling successful the shallows disconnected the land of Mangareva, French Polynesia erstwhile helium was met with the fearsome show of the predator swimming towards him.

The suspected 2.5-metre grey reef shark clamped its jaws onto his limb successful a nightmare scenario.

But quick-thinking Angus pulled a four-inch leaf utilized for cutting diving lines from his pouch and stabbed the shark successful the gills, forcing the bloodthirsty beast to merchandise its grip.

Angus past swam to information earlier an exigency subject craft was called to alert him to the nearest hospital, wherever helium had life-saving six-hour surgery.

The shark's crisp teeth severed 2 of the large nerves successful Angus' limb on with immoderate tendons.

He had tegument and nervus grafts - and respective teeth and bony fragments were retrieved from the injured limb.

Angus was retired sailing with a person successful May and was attacked erstwhile the brace separated to bash immoderate free-diving.

Upon sighting the predator, helium managed to enactment retired his limb to support his caput and cervix arsenic it launched towards him.

Recounting his fearfulness ordeal, Angus said: "When the shark bit, I didn't person clip to panic - you conscionable person to enactment erstwhile you person that benignant of adrenaline successful those situations.

"At archetypal I felt immense symptom - I truly thought I would suffer my arm.

"Seeing that shark close earlier it spot maine - that was a existent 'oh sh*t' moment.

"My archetypal absorption was to get my weapon utilized for cutting lines, and I conscionable went for the shark arsenic hard arsenic I could.

"It was lone a small knife, but I'm precise gladsome I had it connected that day.

"After it released my arm, I couldn't spot thing but for a immense excavation of humor astir me, but I managed to basal up connected a reef.

"My limb was virtually squirting humor - it looked similar a stripped drumstick."

Angus tied goggles astir his limb to make a makeshift tourniquet.

His person helped him get to information successful a adjacent town, Rikitea, earlier helium was rushed to Taaone Hospital successful Tahiti.

The adjacent day, Angus said, doctors took his him isolated and had to enactment it backmost unneurotic again.

After 3 weeks recovering successful Tahiti helium flew location to East London, South Africa, for further treatment.

The nerves successful his limb had been wholly severed by the onslaught meaning helium had small question oregon feeling.

He had a tegument graft utilizing tegument from his near thigh and a nervus graft utilizing nerves transplanted from the backmost of his heel.

He said: "If I hadn't blocked the shark with my arm, it could person gone for my cervix - my jugular vein was close there.

"I would've been toast.

"Or, if it had travel to wound maine again, I would person been excessively injured to combat backmost oregon get away.

"I deliberation I would person died past successful the water, oregon drowned."

He described the onslaught arsenic a "defining experience" successful his beingness - and arsenic a an evident memento wants to get the shark's teeth turned into earrings.

"It's been a defining acquisition successful my beingness and that's wherefore I'm getting the teeth made into earrings."

Despite suffering galore swimmers' worst nightmare, Angus holds nary resentment towards sharks and says helium is itching to get backmost successful the h2o and proceed grooming for a vocation successful sailing.

He said: "My presumption was it was a territory happening - you can't blasted the animal

"After my nervus graft and tegument grafts, it's healing good but I'm taking it time by day."