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Personal information

Born
Bethany Meilani Hamilton
 February 8, 1990 (age 24)
Lihue, Hawaii, U.S.
Residence
Kauai, Hawaii, U.S.
Height
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight
140 lb (64 kg)
Surfing career

Best year
2005
Sponsors
Rip Curl
Major achievements
ESPY Award (2004)
NSSA National Helping Kids Champion (2005)
 2nd place, ASP World Junior Championships (2008)
Website
bethanyhamilton.com
Bethany Meilani Hamilton (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional surfer. She is known for surviving a shark attack in which her left arm was bitten off, and for overcoming the injury to ultimately return to professional surfing. She wrote about her experience in the 2004 autobiography Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board.
In April 2011, the feature film Soul Surfer was released, based on the book and additional interviews. She has appeared on many television shows since the loss of her arm.


Contents  [hide]
1 Surfing career
2 Shark attack and recovery
3 Media
4 Soul Surfer
5 Personal life
6 References
7 External links

Surfing career[edit]

Placings in surf competitions

Year
Event
Place
Country
1998 Rell Sun Menehune 1st  United States
2002 Open Women's Division of the NSSA 1st  United States
2004 NSSA National Competition 5th  United States
2005 NSSA National Competition 1st  United States
2005 O'Neill Island Girl Junior Pro tournament 1st  United States
2006 NSSA National Championship: 18-and-under Finalist 5th  United States
2006 Hawaii Team Highlights 4th
 5th*  United States
2007 NSSA Regionals 5th  United States
2007 T & C Pipeline Women's Pro 4th  United States
2008 US Open of Surfing – Huntington Beach, California 5th  United States
2008 Roxy Pro Surf Festival – Phillip Island 3rd  Australia
2009 Rio Surf International in Rio de Janeiro 3rd  Brazil
2009 Billabong ASP World Junior Championship 2nd  Australia
2014 Surf n Sea Pipeline Women's Pro 1st  United States
*4th at Brazil event, 5th at World Games event in the United States.
Shark attack and recovery[edit]
On October 31, 2003, at age 13, Bethany Hamilton went for a morning surf along Tunnels Beach, Kauai with best friend Alana Blanchard and Alana's father Holt and brother Bryan. Around 7:30 am., with numerous turtles in the area, she was lying on her surfboard with her left arm dangling in the water, when a 14 foot tiger shark attacked her,[1] severing her left arm just below the shoulder. The Blanchards helped paddle her back to shore, then Alana's father fashioned a tourniquet out of a surfboard leash and wrapped it around the stump of her arm, before she was rushed to Wilcox Memorial Hospital. By the time she arrived there she had lost over 60% of her blood and was in hypovolemic shock. Then a doctor living in a hotel nearby raced to the rescue. Her father, who was scheduled to have knee surgery that morning, was already there, but she took his place in the operating room. She spent a week in recovery before being released. During subsequent media interviews, she confirmed that she felt normal when she was bitten and did not feel much pain from the bite at the moment of the disaster, but felt numb on the way to the hospital.
When the news broke out of the shark attack, a family of fishermen led by Ralph Young, presented to investigators photos of a 14-foot-long tiger shark they had caught and killed about one mile from the attack site. It had surfboard debris in its mouth. When measurements of it mouth were compared with those of Hamilton's broken board, it matched. In late 2004, the police officially confirmed that it was the one that attacked her.
Despite the trauma of the incident, Hamilton was determined to return to surfing.[2] In three weeks after the incident, she returned to her board.[3]
Initially, she adopted a custom-made board that was longer and slightly thicker than standard and had a handle for her right arm, making it easier to paddle, and she learned to kick more to make up for the loss of her left arm. After teaching herself to surf with one arm, on January 10, 2004, she entered a major competition. She now uses standard competitive performance short-boards.[4] Hamilton's broken surfboard that she was riding during the attack is on display at the California Surf Museum.[5]
Media[edit]
Since the attack, she has been a guest on numerous television shows. Her manager Roy "Dutch" Hofstetter, who went on to produce the film "Soul Surfer", managed her rise through the media from "shark attack victim" to "inspirational role model". The television shows she has appeared on include The Biggest Loser, 20/20, Good Morning America, Inside Edition, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Today Show and The Tonight Show, as well as in magazines People, Time and American Girl. Additionally, she was the cover story in the premier issue of Nine magazine.[6]
In 2004, she won the ESPY Award for Best Comeback Athlete[7] and also received the Courage Teen Choice Award.[8]
In 2004, MTV Books published Hamilton's book, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board (ISBN 0-7434-9922-0), which describes her ordeal. Her story is also told in the 2007 short subject documentary film, Heart of a Soul Surfer, directed by Becky Baumgartner. Described as a "faith-based documentary", the film addresses her devout Christianity and the courage and faith in Jesus Christ in the aftermath of the shark attack, and follows her quest for spiritual meaning.[9][10]
On August 7, 2009, she was a contestant on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? and won $25,000. On May 16, 2010, she appeared on an episode of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. In March 2011, Hamilton did a video for the Christian organization, I Am Second, telling about her struggle after the shark attack and how she trusted in God to get her through it.
On October 11, 2011, she appeared on the TLC series 19 Kids and Counting, in the episode titled "Duggars Under the Sea", when the Duggar family visited her, in Atlanta, Georgia. Hamilton is due to play herself in the upcoming sequel to the 2011 film Dolphin Tale, which revolves around the baby dolphin Hope's story. Filming began in Clearwater, Florida on October 7, 2013 and is due to finish some time in January 2014. It is set to be released on September 19, 2014.[citation needed]
Hamilton and her husband Adam Dirks are racing as a team in The Amazing Race 25.[11]
Soul Surfer[edit]
On April 8, 2011, a feature film Soul Surfer, based on her 2004 book, was released in theaters. Hamilton was portrayed by actress AnnaSophia Robb. She performs all the one-armed surfing stunts in it.[12] The DVD and Blu-Ray was released on August 2, 2011.
Personal life[edit]
Bethany was home schooled from the age of 10.[2] She is the youngest of three siblings.[13] In early 2012, Hamilton met youth minister[14] Adam Dirks through mutual friends.[15] They became engaged in April 2013.[16] The couple were married on August 18, 2013 in front of 300 friends and family members at a secluded 130-acre estate on Kauai's north shore, near where she grew up.[17]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "About". Bethany's General Biography. BethanyHamilton.com. 2003. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "Homeschool World - Articles - Soul Survivor: The Bethany Hamilton Story - Practical Homeschooling Magazine". Home-school.com. 2003-10-31. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
3.Jump up ^ Clark, Mark (September 24, 2011). "Soul Surfer Interview With Bethany Hamilton!". WhatCulture!. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
4.Jump up ^ "Bethany Hamilton – Amputee Surfer | The Injury Cooperative". Theinjuryco-op.com. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
5.Jump up ^ Guy Bagley. "Current Exhibits". Surfmuseum.org. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
6.Jump up ^ "Shark attack survivor discusses products and jewelry lines in new mag" by Lanaly Cabali, The Garden Island, June 30, 2006.
7.Jump up ^ "The 2004 ESPY Awards winners". ESPN. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
8.Jump up ^ Silverman, Stephen M. (August 9, 2004). "Lindsay Lohan Top Teen Choice Awards". People. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
9.Jump up ^ "Heart of a Soul Surfer". Walking on Water. Retrieved June 8, 2007.
10.Jump up ^ "Heart of a Soul Surfer: The Bethany Hamilton Movie". Retrieved June 8, 2007.
11.Jump up ^ "Cast features survivor veterans, surfer Bethany Hamliton". 2014-05-31. Retrieved 2014-05-31.
12.Jump up ^ Pilkington, Maria (September 27, 2011). "Bethany Hamilton (Soul Surfer) Interview". The 405. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
13.Jump up ^ "Bethany Hamilton: About".
14.Jump up ^ Dodd, Johnny (March 28, 2014). "Bethany Hamilton: My Husband Keeps Me Surfing". People. Retrieved March 28, 2014.
15.Jump up ^ Webber, Stephanie (August 18, 2013). "Pro Surfer Bethany Hamilton Marries Adam Dirks". Us Weekly. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
16.Jump up ^ Wicks, Krista (May 7, 2013). "Surfer Bethany Hamilton Engaged". Entertainment Tonight. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
17.Jump up ^ "Bethany Hamilton's Official Wedding Photo". Retrieved June 22, 2014.
External links[edit]
CBS News interview
Bethany Hamilton Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America
Bethany Hamilton and the Teeth of the Tiger


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Rodney Fox
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For the Australian canoer, see Rodney Fox (canoer).


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Rodney Winston Fox is a South Australian film maker, conservationist, survivor of an attack by a great white shark and one of the world's foremost authorities on that species.[1][2] Fox was inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame in 2007.[3]


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1 Biography
2 Shark attack
3 Bibliography
4 References
5 External links

Biography[edit]
Rodney Fox was born in South Australia on 9 November 1940.
Shark attack[edit]
Fox was attacked by a great white shark while spearfishing and badly bitten around the chest and arm in December 1963. His story of the attack and escape has been published many times. He is regarded as a miracle survivor of one of the world's worst non-fatal shark attacks.[4]
In the attack, Fox's abdomen was fully exposed and all ribs broken on his left hand side. His diaphragm was punctured, lung ripped open, scapula pierced, spleen uncovered, artery exposed, and he was minutes away from his veins collapsing due to the loss of large amounts of blood. The Tendons, fingers, and thumb in his right hand were all cut and to this day he still has part of a shark tooth embedded in his wrist. His wounds required more than 450 stitches after the attack.
Fox went on to design and build the first under water observation cage to dive with the great white shark, and for over 40 years has led major expeditions to film and study his attacker.[5] He arranged and hosted the very first great white shark expedition to welcome sport divers, and has run hundreds of expeditions in the thirty years since.
Fox is regarded as a world authority on the great white shark and has a great reputation as an expedition leader and producer of shark documentaries. He has been involved in some way with most great white shark films made in the 20th century. He has hosted expeditions for over 100 major feature and documentary films with film makers and shark researchers from 16 different countries. Disney, Universal, IMAX, Cousteau Society and National Geographic have enlisted his help and have filmed and studied the great white shark from his cages.
Fox's life since the attack has involved consulting and coordinating film crews and arranging and guiding ecotourism adventure trips and expeditions specializing in great white sharks and other marine creatures. He also travels the world giving talks to people about his experiences with sharks and the need for conservation efforts to continue. His s talks and films on the great white shark have educated swimmers and divers to the realistic potential of a shark attack. He delivers a firm message that "sharks are not all that bad, we have very few confrontations with them and we should look after all our fishes especially the great white". He positions it as an important "keystone predator" directly controlling the diversity and abundance of other species in the great web of life.
Fox has a large private collection of displays and items from 40 years film making on the ocean which are on tour around Australia and the world. They feature great white shark models, shark proof cages from the film Jaws, giant and ancient fossil shark teeth, plus photos and video highlights from many films that he has been involved in.
Rodney, along with his son Andrew Fox, after more than 40 years, still continue to run Rodney Fox Great White Shark Expeditions, a shark cage diving operation to view great white sharks in the wild off Southern Australia. This operation also acts as a platform for much needed further research of great white sharks as well as encouraging quality natural history documentaries on the species.
Rodney and Andrew, along with shark researcher Dr. Rachel Robbins, founded the Fox Shark Research Foundation (FSRF) which is devoted to the study and conservation of the great white shark.
The great white shark is listed by the IUCN as a vulnerable species. The Fox Shark Research Foundation is endeavouring to expand our understanding of great white sharks, using the latest technologies and methods of research and working in collaboration with other scientific institutions.
Fox currently strives to further raise public awareness of the plight of all shark species through his dive operation and research foundation, via publications, public speaking, and the films his operations facilitate.
In 2009, Fox was nominated for the 2010 Indianapolis Prize, the world's largest individual monetary award for animal species conservation.
Bibliography[edit]
Sharkman, ISBN 9780439474450
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ http://www.theolivepress.es/2008/03/28/dangerous-shores-for-jaws/
2.Jump up ^ http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1019682
3.Jump up ^ http://www.scubahalloffame.com/hallmembers.html
4.Jump up ^ http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s518746.htm
5.Jump up ^ http://www.theage.com.au/travel/great-white-fever-20081113-5zfw.html?page=-1
External links[edit]
Rodney Fox's web site
Shark Survivor And Saviour:Rodney Fox Interview 2007
Shark And Awe: Cage Diving With Rodney Fox 2007
http://www.diveplanet.co.nz/gwdivfox/index.asp Shark Diving Rodney Fox
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Andre Hartman
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Andre Hartman is a South African diving guide best known for his work with great white sharks. In a Discovery Channel documentary known as "Great White Sharks: Uncaged" he is filmed free-diving unprotected with several great white sharks.
Andre is also seen free-diving with a white shark along with Jean-Michel Cousteau in one of Cousteau's documentaries, where he shows Jean-Michel how to grab a ride on the shark's dorsal fin. Another video, from Tow Surfing Adventures, shows Andre not only free-diving with a white, but petting it as it swims by, and even touching its nose as it opens its mouth toward him.
Andre also appeared on an episode of MTV's "Wildboyz," in which Steve O and Chris Pontius jumped off a boat with a great white shark.
In February 2004, while chumming the waters during a cage-diving expedition, Andre's foot was bitten by a great white shark as they dangled over the edge of his boat. The South African newspapers claimed that Andre was free-diving with the sharks in the chummed water at the time of the incident, which is illegal in South Africa. The actual sequence of events that took place are disputed. Andre's foot fully recovered.
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Brook Watson
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Sir Brook Watson, Bt
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Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet (7 February 1735 – 2 October 1807) was a British merchant, soldier, and later Lord Mayor of London. He is perhaps most famous as the subject of John Singleton Copley's painting Watson and the Shark, which depicts a shark attack on Watson as a boy that resulted in the loss of his right leg below the knee.


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2 Military career
3 Business
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5 Watson and the Shark
6 Personal life
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Early life and the shark attack[edit]
Watson was the only son of John Watson and Sarah Watson (née Schoefield). Born in Plymouth, Devon in 1735, he was orphaned in 1741 and sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Boston, Massachusetts. His uncle was a merchant who traded in the West Indies. Before the age of 14, Watson had expressed his interest in the sea, so his uncle signed him up as a crew member on one of his merchant ships.
While swimming alone in Havana harbour, Cuba in 1749, the 14-year-old Watson was attacked by a shark. The shark attacked twice before Watson was rescued. The first time, the shark removed flesh from below the calf of Watson’s right leg; the second time, it bit off his right foot at the ankle. Watson was rescued by his shipmates, but his leg had to be amputated below the knee. Watson recuperated in a Cuban hospital and recovered within three months.
Military career[edit]
On his return to Boston, Watson found that his uncle was bankrupt. He took a job under Captain John Huston on a schooner that supplied provisions to the British army at Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia (1750). At Fort Lawrence he came to the notice of Robert Monckton, and by 1755 he was commissary with Monckton at the Battle of Fort Beauséjour. Three years later he was sent to supervise the expulsion of the Acadians from the Baie Verte area. He worked with the English trader Joseph Slayter, and in 1758 he was commissary under General James Wolfe at the Siege of Louisbourg (1758). He was known as 'the wooden-legged commissary'.
In 1759 Watson went to London to continue his mercantile career, and for a while he was a partner with Joshua Maugher. Watson became a successful merchant, engaging in business in London, Montreal and Boston, amongst other places. In 1763 he obtained, with others, a land grant from the government of Nova Scotia of the county of Cumberland, which had been founded four years earlier.
Business[edit]
Watson was a member of the original committee of the Corporation of Lloyds of London in 1772, and later served for ten years as its chairman.



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He combined his mercantile affairs with government business. He visited Massachusetts, New York and other colonies before the American Revolutionary War, during which time he intercepted letters to General Thomas Gage that were said to prove that Gage was a spy. Calling him ‘a traitor’, William Dunlap wrote that Watson "ingratiated himself with many leading Americans, obtained as much information on their designs as he could, and transmitted it to his chosen masters."[1]
In November 1775 Watson accompanied the American prisoner Ethan Allen on a voyage from Canada to England. Allen wrote that he "was put under the power of an English Merchant from London, whose name was Brook Watson: a man of malicious and cruel disposition, and who was probably excited, in the exercise of his malevolence, by a junto of tories, who sailed with him to England ..."[2]
Watson was examined by the House of Commons in 1775, when Lord North's bill to cut off the fisheries of New England was before parliament. In 1782 he acted as Commissary General to the army commanded in North America by Sir Guy Carleton.
Politician[edit]
After this he returned to London, where he was elected to serve as an Alderman of the City. Watson served as a Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1784 until 1793. He was also Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1785. Watson was agent for New Brunswick in London from 1786 until 1794, and Commissary-General to the Duke of York from 1793 to 1795.
He was Lord Mayor of London in 1796. From 1798 until 1806 he was Commissary-General of England. (Dallas also refers to this office as the "Commissariat Office of the Treasury"[3])Watson was also a director of the Bank of England.
A verse penned by one of Watson’s political enemies poked fun at his ordeal (and perhaps at his abilities):
“ Oh! Had the monster, who for breakfast ateThat luckless limb, his noblest noddle met,The best of workmen, nor the best of wood,Had scarce supply'd him with a head so good. ”
Watson and the Shark[edit]



 Copley's painting dramatically showed Watson's rescue by his shipmates.
Main article: Watson and the Shark
Sources differ as to how Watson and the artist John Singleton Copley met in 1774: some say they travelled on the same ship from Boston to England, and some that they met in London. Whatever the circumstances of their meeting, Watson commissioned Copley to produce the work, known as Watson and the Shark which was completed in 1778. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1778, and caused a sensation.
Today the text beneath the painting reads:
This picture representing a remarkable occurrence in the life of Brook Watson was bequeathed to the Royal Hospital of Christ in London by his will.He was of a very good family in the North of England but having lost both his parents early in life was brought up by an aunt, and before the age of fourteen years manifested a strong predilection for the sea, which led to the misfortune represented in the picture.He served in the Commissariat Department of the Army under the immortal Wolfe at Louisberg in 1758. In 1759 he was established as a merchant in London and was subsequently called upon to act as Commissary General to the Army in America commanded by Sir Guy Carleton, late Lord Dorchester.On his return from that service he was elected an Alderman of the City of London and one of its representatives in parliament, and continued Member of the House of Commons till he was appointed to the situation of Commissary General to the Army under His Royal Highness the Duke of York, acting on the continent of Europe.In 1796 he was chosen Lord Mayor and in 1803 created a baronet of the United Kingdom.He died in 1807, an Alderman of the City of London, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, &c, &c thus shewing that a high sense of integrity and rectitude with a firm reliance on an over ruling providence united to activity and exertion are the sources of public and private virtue and the road to honours and respect. The picture was painted by John Singleton Copley Esq. Royal Academician in the year 1778.
Watson’s will, dated 12 August 1803, stated: "I give and bequeath my Picture painted by Mr. Copley which represents the accident by which I lost my Leg in the Harbour of the Havannah in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Nine to the Governors of Christ's Hospital to be delivered to them immediately after the Decease of my Wife Helen Watson or before if she shall think proper so to do hoping the said worthy Governors will receive the same as a testimony of the high estimation in which I hold that most Excellent Charity and that they will allow it to be hung up in the Hall of their Hospital as holding out a most usefull [sic] Lesson to Youth." The school's Committee of Almoners accepted the painting in 1819. In 1963 it was purchased from Christ’s Hospital by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Personal life[edit]
Watson married Helen Campbell in 1760. Her father was Colin Campbell, a goldsmith working in Edinburgh. The Watsons had no children. Watson was made a baronet on 5 December 1803. Watson’s coat of arms was designed to reference his ordeal with the shark. Underneath Neptune brandishing his trident, the shield bears Watson’s severed right leg, with the Latin motto Scuto Divino ('Under God's Protection') below. In return for his services in North America, Parliament voted Watson’s wife an annuity of £500 for life. Watson died in 1807. His baronetcy descended, by special remainder, to his grand-nephew William.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Dunlap, William (1834). History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States 1. New York. p. 117. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
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Jeffery, Margaret (Dec 1942). "A Painting of Copley's English Period", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, 1(4):148–150
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"Watson and the Shark". National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 2006. Retrieved 12 November 2006.
"The National Portrait Gallery, London: six versions of portraits of Watson". Retrieved 15 December 2006.
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The Zarzov Brothers, or Zarzovs, were two Melbourne-based radio hosts. Their program, The Dog's Breakfast, was broadcast on WYN-FM on Thursday evenings 8–10pm and ended in late 2006, following four years of success and widespread support across Melbourne's western suburbs. The program was also simulcast on the Internet. The Zarzovs were well known for their hilarious antics, irreverent social commentary and bizarre musical interludes. Several Zarzov segments and sketches have been mimicked by other commercial radio stations.
Tragic and quite bizarre circumstances prompted the withdrawal of their program. In early 2006 the senior Zarzov, 'Blewey', suffered a painful death after acquiring food poisoning from a local cut-price Asian restaurant. Later in the same year his co-announcer, 'Burnie', received 30 stitches after being mauled by a shark off Werribee South beach. This injury, as well as the death of his long-standing partner, led 'Burnie' to retire, ending four long years of Zarzov success. They were replaced in their timeslot by a jazz music programme, causing ratings to plummet.
The grave of 'Blewey' is located on the outskirts of Werribee, Victoria and is the centre of pilgrimages by former fans of The Dog's Breakfast.
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