This 61-year-old man survived a great white shark attack by beating it up

An idyllic dip in the ocean off the coast of Massachusetts turned into an actual nightmare for 61-year-old William Lytton earlier this month. Without warning, a massive shark thought to be a great white snatched Lytton in its powerful jaws, and his quick thinking is probably the only reason he's alive today.

There's plenty of advice out there about what to do if you ever find yourself on the wrong end of an aggressive shark, but it's hard to know what might actually save your life. In the past, some wildlife buffs have advised shark attack victims to punch the shark in the tip of the nose to stun or startle it, but that's not what worked for Lytton. Instead, Boston Magazine reports that he send a flurry of fists at the creature's gills.

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