Mick Fanning Donated His 60 Minutes Pay To Ballina Shark Attack Victim

Upon hearing of Lee’s injuries, the Courier Mail have revealed that Fanning donated AU $75,000 to Lee, an amount which he was due to receive for appearing on the Australian television programme 60 Minutes.

JULIAN Wilson is arguably now one of the most recognisable professional athletes on the planet courtesy of a great white shark that interrupted his World Surf League tour event final showdown with three-time world champion Mick Fanning in South Africa three weeks ago.

A second Australian surfer has warded off a shark attack by punching the predator after it bit his leg, police in New South Wales said Friday (August 1 PHT).

Lee, whose accident received far less media attention than Fanning’s, remains at Gold Coast University Hospital where he is still receiving treatment. Ballina was the scene of two current shark assaults through which 32-year-old surfer Matt Lee was critically injured on July 2 and Japanese vacationer Tadashi Nakahara, 41, was mauled to demise whereas browsing in February.

The Australian surfer made famous after his encounter with a shark during a televised surfing contest was filming a segment with a 60 Minutes Australia TV crew when he suddenly jumped from the water on to a waiting jet ski.

Mr Lee’s family said on a Facebook support page: “No words can describe how grateful we are for the generous donation”.

In the latest incident, the man attacked was 100metres offshore at Evans Head in New South Wales state when he spotted the fin and shouted to another surfer to get out of the water.

A surfer punched a shark after being attacked on Australia’s east coast Friday, suffering bite wounds to his legs and hands in what a witness said was like “a Mick Fanning replay”. “Your mind can … turn shadows into demons, or stuff like that”. “Straight out, I just saw it”.

“With mom, you sort of just smile and laugh a little bit and make sure that’s she okay and then just run away before she can grab you again and hold you in”, Fanning told GMA.