Surfer's shark escape

A surfer says a well-timed wave saved him from a shark attack.

Aaron Seare, 31, was surfing alone at a beach near Warrnambool in Victoria, when a 2.4m shark suddenly came straight at him, he said, sinking its teeth into his leg rope.

But as he felt the shark tugging on the rope, a wave picked him up and washed him back to the beach, where he saw that the rope had been chopped in half.