Ammon News - A surfer is lucky to be alive after a terrifying encounter with a massive great white shark off the coast of New South Wales left his surfboard in two pieces — and fellow beachgoers in shock.

Brad Ross was surfing at unpatrolled Cabarita Beach around 7:30 a.m. on Monday, August 18, when the 16-foot shark struck, taking a massive bite out of his board, launching him in the air, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

Miraculously, Ross escaped without a scratch.

“The man was sitting on his board and the shark literally bit the board behind his butt,” said local yoga teacher Kym Falvey, who witnessed the incident.

“The board just popped, like it exploded … It flew up in the air, and there was a man up on the rocks yelling, ‘Oi, come in!’”

In a dramatic video shared online, Ross was seen scrambling to shore with his now-destroyed board, visibly shaken but physically unharmed. The surfboard, split in two, was missing a large, bite-shaped chunk of foam — a mark officials later confirmed came from a great white. NYP