Three British
divers swam for eight miles surrounded by killer sharks after they lost their boat and became stranded in the middle of the sea.
Ian Peach, 49, and pals Martin Hull, 62, and Andy Campling, 52, were among a
group of six scuba divers who found themselves abandoned in the shark-infested water in Mozambique.
The petrified trio spent three hours paddling eight miles back to shore while being circled by deadly Bull Sharks.
Their challenge was made more difficult because their group also had to tow a female diver from Bristol called Rachel who could not swim well.
Bull Sharks are up to eight-foot long, weigh as much as 290lb and are believed to have been responsible for the series of attacks in America in 1916 which inspired the film Jaws.
Dad-of-one Ian, a solicitor from Portsmouth, Hants, said: "It is a diver's worst nightmare when you are way offshore.
"You have a buoy at the surface attached to a line so if the current moves you anywhere under water the boat follows you.
"The RIB captain lost us. He took his eye off the ball, literally. The sea conditions changed and he has gone one way and we went another.
"It was only when we came up to the surface we realised.
"The area we were diving in is frequented by Tiger sharks and potentially Great Whites.
"When we came up the ones that were under us were Bull Sharks, who are responsible for more attacks on human than Great Whites.
"They were circling us and checking us out. We were totally defenceless.
