A Dunedin man says he does not hold a grudge against the sea lion that bit him.
Dunedin surfer Craig Latimer said he was in the waves with a friend on Sunday morning when the incident happened.
His friend was surfing while he was filming, and the sea lion came up to them and was interacting with them.
The sea lion "mouthed" him a bit too hard and put a hole in his wetsuit.
"I've been out in the water for the last 30 years and had heaps of encounters with them, and that was kind of the first time anything like that happened," Latimer said.