Paul de Gelder, the Royal Australian Navy diver who lost a hand and leg to a bull shark during training exercises in Sydney Harbour, is back on a surfboard thanks to his new leg, according to a story from Washington Today.
Once he had recovered from his wounds, Mr de Gelder returned to the waves on the northern beaches close to his Collaroy home. . . “I love being in the water. I wasn’t going to let the shark attack keep me out of the water,” said Mr de Gelder, who recently returned from New York where he and other shark attack victims lobbied the United Nations to curtail fishing practices that threaten sharks with extinction.
de Gelder is a bad ass, no doubt.
[Link: Washington Today]
