A man feeds a piece of meat offered by devotees to a crocodile at the Manghopir Sufi saint shrine on the outskirts of Karachi April 17, 2014. Visitors and devotees go to the shrine to pay respect to the Sufi saint, Pir Haji Syed Sakhi Sultan and to feed t
A man feeds a piece of meat offered by devotees to a crocodile at the Manghopir Sufi saint shrine on the outskirts of Karachi April 17, 2014. Visitors and devotees go to the shrine to pay respect to the Sufi saint, Pir Haji Syed Sakhi Sultan and to feed the crocodiles, as a tribute to the divine. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: RELIGION ANIMALS SOCIETY)

A kite surfer from Darwin, Australia reported fending off repeated attacks from a crocodile. Chris Keeping, 29, was kite surfing along Lee Point one Saturday morning when he was waiting for his board to untangle close to shore and next thing he knew, he was being attacked by the 2.5-metre reptile, 9News reports.

Keeping described the encounter much like “getting smashed by a Mack truck.” According to him, he didn’t expect to be alive after the incident. "He shook me around for a bit and when he stopped all I could see was a massive snout and a crocodile with his teeth in me," he told ABC radio.

“My kite hit the water and got tangled up so I had to sit there and wait for it to untangle and for the wind to pick the kite up,” Keeping said in an exclusive NT News report. He was in the water for only a few minutes when the large reptile charged, inflicting wounds to his shoulder and back.

According to reports, Keeping got trapped inside the croc’s jaws for a whole two minutes, until he finally got the strength to break his arm free and poke the reptile in the eye. Being a local in the Northern Territory gave him the lessons he needed and one important lesson he learned was to stick a finger into a croc’s eye, ABC News reports. This piece of lesson did come in handy as the crocodile let him loose.

However, the crocodile kept attacking him repeatedly. Keeping even managed to use his surf board as a weapon to hit the croc’s snout. “He’d get real close and the he’d turn off and come back around again … He did that about five times … I kept hitting him in the face,” he said.

Keeping made it back to shore eventually and the croc just disappeared. He called on his sister so he would be taken to the hospital. He had several lacerations on his arm, and other minor cuts and wounds on his back. It was definitely a close call for the kite surfer, but he said that he would still continue his hobby—only not in along Lee Point.

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