"I was stabbing them in the eyes, the nose and gills"

The second night Lisewski said he drifted to a reef and was attacked by sharks. He said he thought they were attracted to him by the color of his kite. He counted 11 sharks in all, in a fight he said lasted the entire night.

“I was stabbing them in the eyes, the nose and gills,” Lisewski told the Polish state news agency PAP.

Lisewski said he usually doesn’t carry a knife, but his brother Piotr, told him to carry one.

“Maybe he had some kind of premonition,” he said.