'Miracle': Fanning on traumatic attack

WHAT MICK FANNING SAID ON HIS RETURN HOME.

I'LL BE BACK

"I'm sure I'll go surfing, surfing has given me so much, it's something I do to clear my mind, it's something that gives me peace."

BUT IT'LL TAKE TIME

"It will probably take - I don't know - a couple of weeks, months (to come to terms with it) ... I don't know how long it's going to take."

AND I'LL GO BACK TO J-BAY

It's one of Fanning's

"I have to go back. It will be hard. But you have to face these things front on. In the end, I have to deal with it when I come to it.

Fanning said it was one of his top three favourite places in the world.

FIGHT OR FLIGHT

"All of a sudden I just felt something...a presence or something behind me...It just sort of came up and went for the tail of my board."

"It just kept coming back...I don't know if I punched it hard or if it was little baby punches.

"I started getting dragged underwater...At that stage I was screaming."

HUMBLED

"I felt so insignificant, the thing was so powerful and was, yeah, it just moved so fast and I was just trying to manoeuvre my way around it.

MIRACLE ESCAPE

"It was so close. I'm doing OK though. I haven't got a scratch on me, just sort of more of an emotional, mental sort of trauma right now."

JULES THE WARRIOR

"He just gave all regard up for himself, and came for me.

He was so brave ... he's just a warrior. Thanks, bud."

WHAT JULIAN WILSON SAID

I STARTED PADDLING

"I saw him start to get kind of manhandled by the shark, and I was kind of freaking out. I wasn't moving...he was kind of getting wrestled on his board, and then a wave came between us and I started paddling."

MICK MY HERO

"I couldn't get there quick enough, he's an amazing human being, he's a great friend and a great role model.

"(I was) surfing against my hero."