article_snippet.sent: A photo of a relaxed and happy surfer seems all but a distant memory as that same man is now fighting for that same man life after being mauled by a Great White Shark.
article_snippet.sent: The 26-year-old is in a critical condition at Royal Adelaide hospital after the horrifying moment which was witnessed by about a dozen other surfers who were in the water at the time and believed the six-metre creature swam away with the surfer's leg and a surfboard in the surfer jaw.
article_snippet.sent: Onlookers have described the distressing moment Onlookers saw the surfer attacked by the predator. '
article_snippet.sent: I was just watching The shark go out to the ocean with The shark board still attached.
article_snippet.sent: Obviously The shark still had The shark and The shark was still swimming around with The shark,' Mr Lugg told Adelaide Now.
article_snippet.sent: Shocked witnesses said after the attack, which took place at Fishery Bay, South Australia, the six-metre shark was seen swimming away with the surfer's leg in the surfer mouth .
article_snippet.sent: I was just watching a shark go out to the ocean with Another witness, who was surfing at the time board still attached,' another witness told the Sunday Mail. '
article_snippet.sent: Obviously a shark still had the surfer's leg in its mouth and Another witness, who was surfing at the time was still swimming around with a shark.'
article_snippet.sent: Another witness, who was surfing at the time said even though Another witness, who was surfing at the time was 50 metres from a shark, Another witness, who was surfing at the time could see a shark 'massive' pectoral fin - and Another witness, who was surfing at the time had no doubts a shark was a great white shark, the most feared creature in the sea.
article_snippet.sent: However details of the type of shark and Another witness, who was surfing at the time's injuries have not been released or confirmed.
article_snippet.sent: the shark victim happened during conditions that police and marine experts have previously said are dangerous.
article_snippet.sent: and it is believed that sharks often mistake humans for seals or dolphins.
highlights_snippet.sent: Witnesses claim the predator bit off the man's leg and swam away with the man's leg .
  