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Aussie fisherman dragged underwater by a monster shark reveals the eerie vision that saved him from the brink of death

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'A very soft white light invaded me; my little Leila said, "Daddy, come home"' said Mr Dickson

An Australian spear fisherman has revealed how a horrifying vision during a vicious shark attack gave him the strength to fight back and survive.

Glenn Dickson, 33, was captured by a 3.5-metre bull shark in February 2017, off Hinchinbrook Island, off the coast of far north Queensland.

He said he was excited to go diving and spearfishing on a “beautiful day” on the island.

“I felt like I’d been hit by a truck and then turned into a rag doll in a washing machine,” she told The Project on Wednesday.

“My body was already trying to swim without me even thinking about it with the limbs I had left.”

He finally reached safety, but not before the shark tried to attack him three more times, knocking him into the water each time.

‘A very soft white light invaded me; My little Leila said, “Daddy, come home,” she said.

“That moment was the moment I went from ‘this is the end of my life’ to ‘I’m going to find everything I can do humanly possible to get through this.'”

‘A very soft white light invaded me; My little Leila said, “Daddy, come home,” said Mr. Dickson.

The Queensland man lost almost a quarter of the femur in his right leg to the 3.5m bull shark.

The Queensland man lost almost a quarter of the femur in his right leg to the 3.5m bull shark.

In the attack, only a quarter of the femur of his right leg was left.

“My instant response was that at least I survived, that kind of fear and knowing how close I was to death, I was just happy to be alive.”

Since that day, Dickson has had repetitive nightmares and “dreams of being torn apart again.”

But on the path to accepting his disabilities, he rekindled his love for training Muay Thai.

Last year he took part in Australia’s first amputee mixed martial arts cage fight in Cairns.

The 33-year-old also advocated against shark culls in Queensland in the years after the attack.

He told Daily Mail Australia he has no animosity towards predators.

“Sharks, like everything, are important to the ecosystem and we already cause enough damage,” he said.

On the road to accepting his disabilities, Dickson rekindled his love for Muay Thai training.

On the road to accepting his disabilities, Dickson rekindled his love for Muay Thai training.

“We don’t need to kill an entire species that is critical to the ocean ecosystem.”

Dickson said he is “100 percent” against culling, drum lines and shark nets despite anyone arguing they may have prevented their attack.

“We get in the water and play with their food source; eventually something will happen when you do that,” he said.

Australia typically experiences 20 shark attacks a year, with three of them resulting in no deaths.

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