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SYDNEY, Oct 25, (APP/AFP) – An aggressive seal has bitten a surfer and knocked another man off his board at a popular Sydney beach in a “freak occurrence”, a report said Tuesday. Nathan Shepherd underwent surgery on his arm after the fur seal leaped out of the water and bit him at Shelly Beach in Manly on Sunday afternoon. “I thought it was amazing to be out with a seal. It was swimming closer to me. It swam quite fast — it jumped out of the water and bit me on the upper arm,” the 45-year-old told the Manly Daily newspaper. “I tried to bring the surfboard down on top of it, and then to put the surfboard between me and the seal, and then I got back on the board and paddled to shore.”