Polish man saved from sharks off Saudi coast

Adventurer spends 40 hours on sea; stabs sharks to keep them at bay

Saudi coast guard rescued a polish adventurer after he fell into the water and was attacked by sharks for nearly 40 hours while trying to cross the Red Sea in a sailing boat.

Jan Lisewski, who had successfully crossed the Baltic sea, set off from Egypt’s coasts and was mid way through the 200-km water strip towards Saudi Arabia when his boat capsized.

After failing to recover the boat, he sent a SOS message to Saudi Arabia and waited in the water for the rescue to arrive.

Saudi coast guard patrols spent nearly 40 hours trying to locate the man, who was attacked by several sharks.

“He said he had lived on little food and had used his knife to repulse shark attacks…he stabbed one shark between the eyes, forcing it and other sharks to keep off him,” the Saudi Kabar daily said.

“In the end, coast guard patrols located Lisewski and rescued him…he was safe and suffered no injuries.”

Harasser gets good smack from sisters

A Saudi man strolling in a local park with his friends decided to try his luck when he saw a pretty girl coming their way. When he did, he wished he had never done it.

“Just as he started harassing the girl, a group of girls came rushing towards him prompting his friends to run away,” Kabar daily said.

“The girls, her sisters, also called their mother…they all jumped on him and gave him a good smack…the targeted girl then hurled a big rock at him but it missed…..the man fled amidst laughter by the crowd packing the park on the weekend,” the paper said in a report from the western town of Taif.