Unluckiest Man Alive: Florida Fisherman Erik Norrie's Series of Unfortunate Events With A Shark, Rattlesnake and Monkeys

Florida fisherman Erik Norrie's life seems like a tale from an adventure thriller book that can be adapted into a movie. The 'unluckiest man' alive is currently recovering in a Tampa Hospital after being attacked by a shark in the Bahamas. It is just one of his many series of unfortunate events with nature.

Norrie, 40, said he had been spearfishing in Great Guana Cay and was swimming back to the 33-foot-Hydra-Sport when the shark attacked him.

He told the Daily News: "I just felt this tremendous power hit my leg.

"When I looked back, I saw the shark ripping the side of my leg off. He was shaking his head and eating it."

His family were boating nearby and sped over to rescue him while his daughter radioed for help. Local doctors helped stabilize his condition and he was flown to the Jackson Memorial hospital in Miami by helicopter for his surgery.

According to the NY Daily News, Norrie is scheduled to have another surgery on Wednesday where Tampa General doctors will take two hunks of flesh from his thigh and graf them onto his calf.

"I do believe that all my heart that the Lord was the one who sustained me through his whole thing," he said.

He later revealed that the shark incident was not his first brush with death. Norrie has survived a lightning strike, rattlesnake bite and monkey attack.

When he was 10 years old, Norrie was struck by a lightning during a storm in Seminole, Florida. Three years later, he nearly lost his right leg and had to spent two weeks in intensive care after a rattle snake bit him while walking with his friends at Seminole Lake Country Club.

The monkey attack, on the other hand, happened to him twice. The first attack happened when he went too close to a monkey in the Amazon and punched him to the head, while the second one was at a farm in Honduras when his wife jokingly locked him at a small cage with a simian.

The primate jumped on his head and chest and bit him.

Norrie is a devout Christian who owns a company that makes paint for boats. He has been spearfishing since he was eight years old.