Chris Blowes, 32, is now allowed to keep the great white shark s tooth after a mammoth legal battle
A surfer who had his leg bitten off by a monster six-metre shark has finally won a stupid six year legal battle allowing him to keep the man-eater s tooth.
Chris Blowes, now 32, was viciously attacked by the massive great white at Port Lincoln s Fishery Bay in South Australia on Anzac Day, 2015.
At the time, traumatised beachgoers described how the predator swam off with Mr Blowes leg lodged in its jaw.
Mr Blowes asked to keep the shark s tooth as a souvenir in the wake of the near-fatal incident, but was not allowed due to the strict laws around protected species.
Surfer Wins Right to Keep Tooth from Shark Attack After Legal Battle
On 5/4/21 at 5:23 PM EDT
An Australian surfer who survived a great white shark attack recently won the right to keep the shark tooth left behind in his surfboard.
In 2015, Chris Blowes was attacked by a great white shark in Southern Australia, reports the BBC. He was comatose for 10 days following the attack, and Blowes ultimately lost his leg.
Blowes told the BBC that the shark played with [him] for a bit before finally pulling his leg off. Two of his friends pulled him to shore and he was transported to a hospital in Adelaide.
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