Man fights off shark, stitches up own leg, goes to the pub.
Jan. 27, 2014
New Zealander James Grant stabs predator with a knife to get free, swims ashore, sutures wounds and goes to pub for a beer.

I know this is an old story, 2014, but it's interesting and funny. New Zealanders and Australians are a different breed. I finally was able to look up the original story instead of trusting the Guardian, and so I was also able to find a picture of Dr. Grant, who was the man bitten.

Wellington: A New Zealand man has recounted how he fended off a shark attack and stitched up his own wound on the beach before enjoying a beer at a nearby pub.
James Grant was spearfishing with friends near Colac Bay at the base of New Zealand’s South Island on Saturday when he was attacked by what he believed was a sevengill shark.
The 24-year-old was in about 2 metres (6ft) of murky water when he felt a tug on his leg, which he initially thought was a friend playing a trick on him. "I looked behind to see who it was and got a bit of a shock," he told Radio New Zealand.
He didn't see the shark and had no idea how big it was, he said, adding that he thought it could have been about 20cm (8in) across the jaw. However, he felt no fear. "[I thought] bugger, now I have to try and get this thing off my leg," he said.
He already had a knife in his hand and stabbed at the shark. "I am not sure how effective it was. I guess it let go so something must have happened. [I] put a few nicks in it."
He quickly made it on to rocks on the shore, where he took off the wetsuit, borrowed from a friend, and saw bites up to 5cm long.
He said he was thankful for the seven millimetres of wetsuit neoprene.

 

He tried to get the attention of his three friends, who were spearfishing just around the bay, but they did not take him seriously.
"I thought surely he hasn't been bitten, there's no way he has been bitten, he's got to be taking the piss," Mackley Lindsay said.
His friends carried on fishing while Dr Grant tacked the wounds together with a needle and thread from his first-aid kit for his pig-hunting dogs.
The group then went to the Colac Bay Tavern, where he was given a bandage because he was dripping blood on the floor.
The stitching was finished off when he went to Southland Hospital, where he was back at work on Monday.
The experience had not deterred him. "When the stitches come out I will be back in the water," Dr Grant said.
Department of Conservation technical officer marine and shark specialist Clinton Duffy said, although it was difficult to tell without an accurate description, he believed the attacker was probably a broadnosed sevengill shark.
Sevengill sharks grow up to three metres long, and New Zealand iss one of a few countries where they attacked humans. However, attacks by the sevengill were relatively common around the Southland and Otago coast.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/man-fights-off-shark-then-stitches-himself-up-20140127-hva2g.html