Veteran Australian surfer Matthew Devine experienced everyone’s worst nightmare when a massive shark violently rammed him off his surfboard recently.

It happened at Cabarita Beach in northern New South Wales, an encounter highlighted in footage captured by Surfline. The 53-year-old father of two was sitting in the lineup waiting for a wave around 4:00 PM when the apex predator struck from below.

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“Sitting on my board and then bang, just a shark come up from underneath and flip me off, knock me off my board into the water,” Devine recalled. Floating face-to-face with the predator, he frantically retrieved his board and began paddling toward the shore.

Terrified, Devine braced for a fatal strike, stating, “I just thought, this thing’s big and then, yeah, I was just waiting for it the third time to hit. I thought this third time is going to get me.”

Miraculously, Devine made it to the beach completely unharmed.…