South Australian chiropractor Dr Rob Hutchings said he suffered "shell shock" after encountering a large turtle while training for his reef swim next year off the coast of Adelaide last Friday.
"I was just swimming along thinking about how wonderful life was, and my left arm came crashing down on the back of a very large turtle," Dr Hutchings said. "I was quite shocked by it, because I didn’t think turtles were down here.
"I've been swimming down here for about six years and never seen them down here. For a split second, I thought I had run into a shark."
The encounter exacerbated an injured shoulder Dr Hutchings had suffered, after he had accidentally crashed into a kangaroo the week earlier while mountain biking in the Grampians.
Luckily, the chiropractor has been able to repair himself relatively quickly in order to get back in the water.
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