An Australian surfer is fortunate to be alive after a run-in with a shark — but his surfboard wasn’t so lucky.

Dale Kittow was surfing at Cheynes Beach in Western Australia Wednesday afternoon when a shark rushed towards him, leaving the quick-thinking dad to use his board to fend off the predator.

“I just sat on my board and it circled me a few times before it charged at me,” Kittow, 37, told 9 News Australia.

“I jumped off the back and shoved the board in its face and had a bit of a tussle with it.”

The creature — assumed to be an almost 10-foot bronze whaler — then bit into the board, taking out a large chunk of its fiberglass material.

“I jumped off the back of my board and put it in between me and the shark. The shark bit into the board,” he told the outlet.

Both Kittow, a father of a three-year-old son, and the shark got tangled in the broken board’s rope.

“We got tangled in my leg rope, went under and got dragged for a bit. I hit it a few times,” he said.

Kittow, whose wife was watching the harrowing situation from the shore, was able to let his leg rope go and free himself — before miraculously making it back to shore.

“There were definitely moments there when I was thinking it wasn’t going to go too good,” he told 7 News.

“I feel very lucky. It was a bit of a miracle, really.”

Although Kittow was able to save the bitten-off piece of the board as a memento, the rest of it was confiscated by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development to confirm the shark’s species and further investigate the attack.