Though we may not notice it through the dark, dreary haze of the daily news, man still has a fighting chance in his battle with nature. Throughout the last few weeks I’ve read several amazing survival stories which I will repeat here as a solute to a few men that have proven themselves to be more bad-ass than anything God can throw at them.

Eric Nerhus

Unlike Samuel L. Jackson, Australian diver Eric Nerhus was eaten head-first by a shark and lived to tell about it. On January 23 Nerhus was diving off the coast of New South Wales when a three meter great white (also called a white pointer shark) chose to devour him from neck to naval. Fortunately for the 41 year-old diver he was wearing protection (a lead-lined diving vest), and the shark had the eating habits of only the most skilled pornographic actress: rarely scraping or biting, but relentlessly trying to swallow the sea-man in it’s mouth.
Nerhus survived the attack by using the only weapons he had available: a single free arm, a chisel, and one tough mustache. The diver was hospitalized for lacerations and a broken nose, and the shark retreated sans an eyeball and a little pride; but with a little training and his new eye patch, the shark is confident that he can defeat the mustachioed mariner when next they meet.