British marathon swimmer Chris Murray, 50, was two and a half hours into his race just off the coast of California when a Great White shark attacked him and bit his hand and feet View 5 Images Chris Murray narrowly survived the horrifying incident (Image: CNN)
A Brit swimmer survived being bitten by a Great White shark twice while he was completing a race. Chris Murray, 50, was trying to swim 20 miles between Catalina Island and the Los Angeles County coast before the monster attacked him. “It hit me and I shook it off,” Murray told CBS News. “It was wriggling around me a bit. I can just remember it feeling like pure muscle.”
The Brit was midway through his journey on Tuesday, September 30, when a Great White – estimated around three-to-four feet in length – bit his