A surfer who was attacked by a shark off South Australia's Kangaroo Island has told how he fought the shark as it bit him.

Lee Berryman was surfing at a popular surf break, known as The Sewer, at D'Estrees Bay about 1.30pm yesterday when he was attacked by what was believed to be a bronze whaler shark that was chasing a seal.

He was bitten twice, suffering injuries to his leg, before he drove himself to hospital.

Berryman spoke to 9News from his hospital bed, where he admitted he thought he may not survive the attack.

"This could be the end, because I had to paddle to the rocks," he said.

"It probably only took me four minutes to get to the rocks, felt like half an hour because he kept coming back.

"He actually had three chomps, three different lines of bites, slowly working his way

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