The damage from the bite to his right leg required four surgeries and a skin graft, but didn’t cause him to lose any ability to use his foot."No hard feelings towards the shark.I was in its environment hunting its food," Gibbs wrote in an Instagram post a few days ago that included pictures of him in a hospital bed.Fishing content creator Henry Gibbs was bitten by a grey reef shark while spearfishing in Fiji.
(Getty Images)"Wrong place, wrong time, and there are definitely a few lessons I'll share when I post the footage in the hope it helps someone avoid ending up in the same situation and a bit on how to respond to it."ZERO BS.JUST DAKICH.
TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD.DOWNLOAD NOW!On Sunday, the fishing influencer followed through on that and shared the footage of the shark circling below before racing toward him and taking a bite out of his lower leg.Gibbs explained that they had been diving in the reef for an hour or two before making their way to clearer blue water.
They were trying to do some spearfishing and had a "handful of grey reef sharks" hanging out near them.Palm Beach closed as beaches in Sydney's north have been closed since Tuesday due to shark attacks and dangerous currents during summer in Sydney on January 22, 2026 in Sydney, Australia.(Corbis via Getty Images)One of the sharks in particular hung around longer than the others.
He doesn’t know if it was the commotion coming from the boat, the speargun sounds or the general activity in the water that made the shark excited.'SHARK WEEK' HOST FORREST GALANTE EXPLAINS WHY CRUSHING BEERS IN THE OCEAN IS A BAD IDEA"I'll never know exactly what caused the change, but eventually it started making tight semicircles beneath us, became increasingly agitated and even sprinted at the boat," Gibbs wrote in the caption of the shark attack footage."Looking back, that should've been enough of a sign to call the dive.I never thought a shark of that size posed much of a threat, and that was a m...