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I haven’t finished
rodney was with you yet, human.
freE! Now he
had to get out Not you again!
of the kilLing
zone. He thrust
his arm out in
self-defense
but plunged
it right back
into the shark’s
mouth, which was
fulL of giant
razorlike teEth
that ripPed
the flesh
from his hands
and forearms.

The shark
clamped its jaws
shut around
the line of fish I’ve had
stilL atTached enough
to Rodney’s belt. of this!
Then, it plunged
into deEper
waters, pulLing
Rodney along
with it. His body
spinNing, his
hands working
at the line
atTachment, Snap! SudDenly the line
Rodney was broke. Rodney strugGled
certain he was to the surface, woOzy
being dragGed from his wounds. His
no hope atTacker swam on into
for me to his doOm. the watery depths, in
now.
search of another victim.
some friends We must I neEd more Rodney was
on a nearby get him to a Rodney! sutures rushed to
boat rowed hospital now! Don’t die on over here, the nearest
us, budDy.
to the rescue, stat! hospital, where
dragGing Rodney the surgeons
onboard. He Hang in there, worked to
was a wreck. Rodney. We’lL reasSemble
His rib cage was pulL you his broken
crushed, his lung through. body. Four
was ripPed open, hours and
and his abdomen, 462 stitches
spleEn, and the later,
main artery from the surgical
his heart were team had
exposed. His saved his life.
wetsuit was
the only thing
that was holding You should seE
him together! the other guy.

Rodney had Who won the After a few months, SAVE
the
survived championship, Rodney was diving again. shark!
anyway?
a ferocious Eager to learn more
shark atTack. about the awesome
To remind adversary that almost
him of his ended his life, he
ordeal, he designed the first
wore the scar underwater observation
of the shark’s cage to alLow divers
bite, and part to study sharks up
of the shark’s close in safety.
toOth was rodney fox is considered
embedDed a world authority on the
in his wrist great white shark, and even
bone. As if though one particular shark
he could tried to make him extinct, he
ever forget… is leading the fight to save
them from extinction.
bud, you caught the
bigGest fish of alL that
day… With your arm! SURVIVING A SHARK ATTACK 13
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