A teenager from New Zealand was able to pro­tect her­self from a shark using her body-board. She was located at the beach near the south­ern city of Inver­cargill. The shark was about 4.9 ft in length. And tried to bite her hip.

She was quoted that she hit the “big, grey, slip­pery thing” repeat­edly with her body-board.

Although not seri­ously injured, Lydia required hos­pi­tal treat­ment for two of the deeper wounds.

Her mother told a local news­pa­per that Lydia thought she had acci­den­tally stood on the shark before it had attacked her.

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More peo­ple accord­ing to researchers are killed by bee stings and light­ning strikes than sharks.

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