EVANS HEAD, AUSTRALIA — A great white shark leapt on board a man’s boat in Australia last month. <br /> <br />Terry Selwood, aged 73, told ABC News that he was fishing around 1 kilometer from the coast near Evans Head in northern Australia when the 200-kilogram fish leapt over 1 meter out of the water and into his boat. <br /> <br />The shark’s pectoral fin cut Selwood’s forearm while it was mid-air. “He came right over the top of the motor and then dropped onto the floor,” Selwood told ABC News. <br /> <br />George Burgess, director of shark research at Florida Museum of Natural History Museum explained to Live Science that sharks would only jump onto a boat in three scenarios. <br /> <br />“It's either caught by the angler, it follows a hooked fish to the surface and its momentum has it jump out of the water onto the boat, or a 9-foot shark in the ocean at random jumps up and lands in the boat," Burgess said. He added the first two reasons were more likely than the last. <br /> <br />Another possibility is that the boat was passing while the shark was striking it’s prey, Live Science reported, citing Burgess. <br /> <br />The shark died during the ordeal and was forklifted from Selwood’s boat, reported National Geographic.