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Shark Attack!
It was summer 2006 and i was swimming off Sunrise Beach in Cape Town. Sightings of sharks in that area had been increasing, although they weren’t something I ever worried about. I was 24 and out with some friends and my younger brother, Stan. (0) We werelifeguards, on a life-saving exercise.Two guys stayed in a boat nearer the shore while Stan and I swam a little farther out. Then something caught my eye – I looked around and saw a large shark fin darting towards my brother. I screamed to the guys in the boat to get Stan out.
. It worked. But now the fin turned and came towards me, before disappearing. I felt relieved that Stan was safe, but scared because I was now the only person in the water. Seconds later, a huge black shape rose up beside me. I was face to face with a 15ft great white. i touched the shark with my feet to try to push myself away and it swung its body round, making a colossal splash. I tried desperately to push myself up, but for some reason my right leg wouldn’t move. I looked down and saw why: everything below my knee was in the shark’s mouth.
. I thought about not being able to say goodbye to my parents, that this was the end. I shouted to the guys in the boat. There hadn’t been time for them to reach me or call for help – they’d only just picked up my brother.
. By now I was dangling against the side of the shark’s body, out of breath and in shock. Then it took me underwater, shaking me with my leg in its mouth.
. “I’m not going down without a fight,” I thought. I started attacking the shark with all my remaining strength, grabbing its eye and punching its nose. I gave one last enormous push and heard a great snapping sound. Suddenly, I was free.
. The boat was nearer now, and Stan saw me floating in the water. He grabbed my hand and started pulling me out. I didn’t know it, but halfway down my shin there was nothing left. At the hospital, they did two amputations, the first to tidy up the wound, the second one to enable me to use a prosthesis. I certainly had my dark times, and at first was angry about what had happened to me. I even thought about ending it all.
. So I set my sights on making the national swimming team, and in 2008 I represented South Africa at the Beijing paralympics. eijing paralympics.
I know it sounds strange, but I’m very happy with how things turned out. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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