Diver pretends to be dead in order to escape the jaws of a great white shark.

After a Great White Shark bit him and carried him 16 feet through the ocean, a quick-thinking diver remembered playing dead.

Frank Logan was diving for sea snails at Bodega Rock in Sonoma County, California, when disaster struck.

According to the source, he was viciously attacked by the super predator, leaving him with 18 individual tooth punctures across a 20-inch crescent-shaped wound across his torso.

The diver, who was wearing a black wetsuit and snorkel, had been at a reef for 25 minutes with friends Floyd Blanchard and Bill Posten when a shark sank its teeth into his body.

“I felt something come down on my legs like a giant vice and then a crushing pain in my back and chest,” he explained.

When the shark began thrashing him around in his jaws, Frank decided to play dead and let his body go limp.

Frank, 25, was then carried 16 feet through the water before the shark released him and swam away.

Frank’s friends assisted in getting him to shore before driving him to the hospital, where surgeons repaired his wounds with over 200 sutures.

Frank’s injuries indicated that the shark was about 13 feet long when he struck in 1968.

According to William McKeever, author of Emperors of the Deep, Frank’s experience is proof.