A New Zealand surfer fended off a great white shark by punching it in the eye and yelling at it to “F–k off,” according to a report.

Nick Minogue, 60, was catching some waves off of Pauanui Beach on the North Island around 11:30 a.m.

“I was just paddling along and got hit on the side of my elbow and forearm,” Minogue told the outlet.

“I actually shouted at it ‘F–k off!” and went to punch it in the eye and missed,” he told the Herald.

“In between the two punches, it crunched down a bit more on the board and then disengaged its teeth, got its jaws off,” he told the Herald.

Before it went packing, though, Minogue got a good enough look at the shark to believe he’d had a brush with a great white.

“It was a gray shark with a white bottom, probably a great white.

When he got back to shore, Minogue realized that the shark had taken a few small chunks out of his board — as well as his arm.

Thankfully it wasn’t too deep,” he told the Herald

“If it had opened its jaws sooner, it would’ve taken a bite out of the middle of the board, it would’ve got probably my arm and half my torso

… It would’ve most likely been fatal.”

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