Talk about bad luck!

An Australian fisherman who was bitten by a shark, in September, while trawling for prawn at sea made a mad 20 hour dash with his boat in an attempt to get to a hospital for treatment only to have his boat run aground within sight of land!

Luckily Quentin gorrell was eventually picked up by the police in a dinghy and brought to the hospital.

“We got totally bogged and could feel we were starting to go over. We couldn’t believe it, the wharf was seriously spitting distance away. It was a case of so close but so far,” Gorrell said.

Gorrell is now recovering from the shark attack in which the shark bit his hand, ripping tendons in his index finger. The bite occurred when he was untangling the shark from the nets on his prawn trawler.

“It almost took my finger off from the second joint,” he said.