Mick Fanning survives shark attack only to fall prey to media feeding frenzy

In a cross between a carnival and a business transaction, the Australian surfer stood before a bloodthirsty press pack hungry for raw emotion

Despite having eyeballed a bloodthirsty predator with a taste for human flesh, Mick Fanning has stood his ground. But enough about the press pack. Let's talk shark, Fanno!

As if it was not enough he came face to face with a great white shark in South African waters on Monday, Fanning then had to walk through a ravenous media scrum up to five journos deep asking him again and again "what was it like?" And that was just on the way to a press conference at Sydney airport.