
National Geographic: The Fox and the Shark
- Year:
- 1985
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December 8, 1963 a day like any other.
At Alldinga Beach,
spearfishing championships
are set to begin.
a life insurance
salesman from Adelaide,
and former champion,
takes to the water.
He sets his sights on
a large reef fish.
Little does he know that
he himself is being stalked...
Through a series of near miracles,
Rodney Fox arrives at Royal Adelaide
Hospital in under an hour.
has just returned
from an international conference
with the very latest
in surgical techniques.
They go to work on the mutilated body
delivered to the operating theater.
The shark has punctured his left lung,
left clavicle, and diaphragm.
The jaws have bitten
through all his ribs,
gouged skin and muscle
from his left side,
and exposed several major organs.
According to one surgeon,
had Rodney arrived five minutes later,
he would have bled to death.
Sewn back together with
over 450 stitches,
he lies bedridden for
two months with the pain,
and the awful memory.
Do you hope to continue
skindiving one day?
I'll get in the water
somewhere sometime,
but I don't know whether I'll go
in this gulf here where
there's been two or three
attacks in the last few years.
That was Rodney Fox then...
And this is Rodney Fox now.
radically transformed a person.
I n a way,
the great white shark that attacked him
but gave him another.
has grown from a fearful shark victim
into a shark champion and protector.
I think that sharks
really beautiful and interesting.
The shark gets a raw deal,
and people just hate it
because they don't understand
and they fear it.
I love to see them flying and
gliding through the water,
and I think that most people
if the realized they weren't
going to be eaten alive.
This from a man who was
Rodney's life since the attack
has been a continuous challenge
to overcome his fear by facing it.
Today, documentary filmmakers
and marine scientists
from all over the world
travel to Australia to go
looking for sharks with Rodney.
His knowledge of living
sharks is unparalleled.
Marine biologist Eugenie Clark
People who hear about
wow, he's an ordinary man like
one of us
and yet
he's had such a terrible experience,
and on top of that,
he's telling us that
sharks aren't dangerous,
they're good, we should preserve them.
So this is what's so
wonderful about Rodney,
the someone who suffered through such
a terrible incident
can now defend the animal
that attacked him.
It wasn't always that way.
Reliving the shark attack story
has been a continuous epic in my life.
So many people want
to hear how I survived,
how I stuck my fingers
in the shark's eyes,
how I put my arm around it
so it wouldn't bite,
and how I went up to the
surface and it followed me.
years of telling the story,
I read the original
Readers' Digest First Person Award the
I had written immediately afterwards,
and I found that I had
changed the story a little.
I was telling people
what they wanted to hear,
and not necessarily the truth.
Here the story is only two days old,
and not nearly so heroic.
All I remember is this big thing
pushing me through the water,
and it seemed to let go a bit
when I pushed my hand up at it,
and it still wouldn't let go.
The pressure of the water might
have been holding me in his mouth.
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