A BRITISH
holidaymaker who wrestled a shark away from a group of toddlers at a Queensland
Paul
Marshallsea, 62, was praised by the lifeguards after he rushed from a
beach-side barbecue to keep the children safe.
The encounter
was caught on camera by a nearby Channel 9 television crew.
The footage
showed Mr Marshallsea grabbing the shark by the tail and dragging it
away from the beach.
The
grandfather said: “Where this shark actually came ashore, it’s shallow for
about five or six yards, and a lot of babies and toddlers splash about there.
It could have been very nasty"
But after
returning from two months Down Under, Paul and his wife Wendy have been sacked
by the charity they both worked for because they were off work for
stress, The Daily Mail reports.
Mr Marshallsea
is now facing life on the dole in one of Britain 's
worst unemployment blackspots in Merthyr Tydfil in South
Wales .
"What am
I going to do now? There’s not much call for shark-wrestlers in Merthyr Tydfil ," he said.
The couple had
headed to Australia
But charity trustees
decided Mr Marshallsea was skiving after seeing footage of him wrestling with
the shark.
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