The Australian surfer had just been on the end of a shark attack while in the water at the J-Bay Open, a competition that takes place in Jeffreys Bay, located on the eastern cape of South Africa.*
"Man, I'm happy to **t even compete ever again. To walk away from that, I'm just so stoked," Fanning said after the incident.***w*he has courageously returned to the scene where it all happened.
Fanning competed at the 2016 J-Bay Open Wednesday, battling through an ankle injury picked up during a warmup last Friday. He had told Instagram followers on Tuesday that he would be "good to go" and hoped his ankle would hold up. Read more...