A man who survived a shark attack plans to have the teeth that were left embedded in his arm turned into jewellery to mark his escape.
Angus Kockott, 20, was snorkelling in the shallow water off the island of Mangareva, French Polynesia, earlier this year, when a suspected 2.5-metre grey reef shark attacked him.
The shark clamped its jaws on Mr Kockott’s, severing two major nerves and some tendons.
Mr Kockott pulled out a four-inch blade usually used for cutting diving lines and stabbed the shark in the gills.
He tied a pair of goggles around his arm to create a makeshift tourniquet before swimming to safety.
An emergency military aircraft flew him to the nearest hospital in Tahiti, where he had a life-saving six-hour surgery, which included skin and nerve grafts.
Surgeons retrieved several shark teeth and tooth fragments from his limb.