'I survived horror great white shark attack by playing dead in huge beast's jaws'

dailystar.co.uk:

great white shark – which terrifyingly carried him 16 feet through the ocean.Frank Logan was 25 years old when his hunt for sea snails left him with 18 individual tooth punctures across a 20 inch crescent shaped wound across his torso. The diver who was wearing a black wetsuit and snorkel, suffered the dramatic shark attack at Bodega Rock in California's Sonoma County in 1968.Frank had been hunting for abalone with pals Floyd Blanchard and Bill Posten for 25 minutes at a reef a shark sank its teeth into his body.He said: "I felt something come down on my legs like a giant vice and then then a crushing pain in my back and chest."Grabbing hold of Frank's side with its jaws, the shark began shaking him violently which Frank bravely reacted to in an unlikely fashion.Instead of struggling or even trying to fight the apex predator, Frank played dead and let his body go limp.As a result, the shark carried him 16 feet through the sea before releasing him from his dagger-like grasp and swam away, ignoring Frank who continued to remain still.

Frank's mates helped get him get to shore before driving him to hospital where surgeons used more than 200 sutures to repair his wounds.The dimensions of the Frank's injuries suggest the shark was about 13 feet long.