An Australian man, drunk on vodka, caught a shark with his bare hands while fishing off a jetty at Louth Bay, a town on South Australia state's Eyre Peninsula, about 870 miles west of Sydney.

Phillip Kerkhof caught a 1.3-meter (4-ft.) bronze whaler shark with his bare hands off an Australian beach on Friday while it was swimming in shallow waters.

"He was just thrashing around in the water ... starting to turn around and try to bite me and I thought 'well, it's amazing what vodka does'," Kerkhof told AP.

Kerkhof admits that he was an "idiot" doing this act and does not recommend it to anyone. The shark bit a hole in Kerkhof's jeans; however he did not suffer from any other injuries.