Dave Pearson

And in the process of looking at the red water around me and realising that sometimes I do get it right in the movies, I seen this big bull shark underneath me and

It was surprising to see its size and also my reaction to it because of being stunned and worried about bleeding was that I didn't care about it.

It didn't become part of my issue at that time.

To me, it was trying to stop the bleeding and get out of the surf.

But I did call back to Aaron and I said, look,

it's still here, get out and I'll meet you on the beach.

And I said, I'll be all right.

So I proceeded to kind of tuck my arm together and put all my weight on it and try to catch a wave one handed and a set come through and I thought, beauty, I'm out of here.

But I wasn't in the right spot and the wave picked me up

And I was too far in, so I got picked up and dumped straight into the sand again.

Next thing, I'm rolling around the bottom again, not wanting to be there at all, and came back to the surface and got hit by another wave.

And sets come in three to four waves, and I got all four of them on the head.

And the one stage was at the bottom.

you see stars for a little while and then you see nothing.

And I was seeing stars and I'd known I'd run out of air and that I was about to, I guess, pass out and realising that I was just about to die.

And I went, wow, today's the day I die.

And it was a tough realisation, I guess, that I actually now knew the moment of my life ending.

The acceptance that I was about to die was okay.

I was cool with it.

And I went, wow.