Bethany Hamilton-Personal Narrative

This quote is crucial.After the shark attack Bethany says she doesn't recall most of what happened.She said all she remembers is a grey shadow and a lot of pressure. She describes how grateful she was not to see the shark because she probably wouldn't have been able to recover the way she did and learn to surf

“I just got attacked by a shark!” pg 6 Bethany Hamilton is a girl who loved to surf. One day she was laying there mesmerizing, and all of a sudden the flashing of her watch or something attracted the 15ft tiger shark. When the shark seen the flashing, it then came up from the depth of the sea and bit her arm off, and left her surf board with the imprint of the sharks bite. While the shark was attacking she called out for help and her dad showed up tied her up and pulled her to the beach to safety. There she and her dad waited to the ambulance got there. Despite the devastating attack, Bethany Hamilton showed great resilience in achieving her dream for surfing.

Bethany was determined to get back in the water. Her goal was to be surfing 3 or 4 weeks after the shark attack. “Bethany made herself a promise: to be on a surfboard by Thanksgiving Day.”(8) She never broke that promise because

Bethany Hamilton is a brave surfer who survived a shark attack and faced her fears to continue doing what she loves. She was born in Kauai in 1990 and started surfing when she was 4 years old. At the age of 8, she got a gold medal in her first competition and since then she would have the first place in every championship she took part of. She was so talented that she could do amazing tricks that surfers her age couldn’t. Therefore, she had Rip Curl as a sponsor. However, in 2003 she was laying on her surfboard with her left arm underwater and a tiger shark bit it. Luckily, she was accompanied by her friends, so they helped her to get to the beach. Although she had a tremendous fear, Bethany didn’t hesitate in returning to the waves

Ella Wood. That’s who I am just Ella Wood a 16 year old girl who never really had much going on and who not many people knew. At least that’s what I had thought a few hours ago when my name wasn’t on the news and pretty much every other place that you could think of. You may be confused as to what I’m talking to you about, so let me tell you a story. Let me warn you though this is not just any story, but my story. First of all let me introduce myself a bit better. I live in a town that’s kind of big and called Blackview. I love to make music it’s one of my special talents and I could also dance. I have an older brother named Tyler. I also have a twin brother named Ethan we’re practically inseparable. We’ve done a lot of things together and

A shark attacks Three out of fifteen people every year… Bethany Hamilton, a championship surfer, was one of those unfortunate victims. Bethany was only thirteen when it happened; it was just a normal October morning at the beach, until tragedy struck. A fifteen-foot long tiger shark tore Bethany’s arm off, she was later brought to the local hospital. Bethany lost half of her blood, but she survived. But, there was a long road of recovery for Bethany, but no matter what happened she wanted to get back to the water. Bethany worked hard and showed great resilience during recovery in order to achieve her dreams of getting back to the water, and start surfing again.

It all started when Bethany, Alana Blanchard, Alana’s Dad, and Alana’s brother where surfing at Hawi by a small island named Ha’en. After surfing a long day at the beach, they decided to take a stop and rest when all of the sudden she felt intense pressure on her board when a 14-foot Tiger shark attacked her. Bethany said,”"I was holding onto my board, with my thumb, because I probably didn't want to get pulled under. It was like pulling me back and forth, not like pulling me underwater. Just like, you know how you eat a piece of steak? It was kind of like that." Rushing her to shore, Alana’s Dad was calling the ambulance and her parents to come help her. They rushed her to the hospital while she was starting to get dizzy and pass out. Once she got to the hospital she lost sixty percent of her blood on her left arm and left with no skin. It was a very rough time for Bethany, but she had to deal with having no left arm for her whole life. Bethany had a struggle with her passion of surfing, she had no strength on getting up on the board with only one arm. So, everyday she practiced and practice to get better. Finally, she got a new board that helped her with the tough waves. After her incident in 2003 at 13 years old, Bethany was back to swimming and competed in the 2005 NSSA National Championships and then began competing on the Pro Circuit in 2007. Bethany is now twenty-seven years old and has a husband named

Bethany Hamilton is a pro surfer who was bitten by a shark. She was bitten by a Tiger shark. The shark bit off her left arm. Bethany was helped recover by talking to others, she also did not think she was different, and she also took rehab.

Bethany Hamilton showed great resilience in overcoming a shark attack, in order to achieve her surfing dream. The shark that attacked Bethany was a fifteen foot Tiger shark.

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You fall off the horse, and you get back on...” This quote was stated by a girl who had her passion ripped away from her, by getting her arm bit off by a shark. Bethany Hamilton had a love for surfing ever since she was a little girl. One day when she was doing the sport she admired, an accident happened that changed her life forever. But the loss of her left arm, did not stop her from overcoming that difficulty.

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"I was holding onto my board, with my thumb, because I probably didn't want to get pulled under. It was like pulling me back and forth, not like pulling me underwater. " (Ott). Blanchard’s father (Bethany's best friend Alana Blanchard’s father) fashioned a quick tourniquet from his surfboard leash, she was then rushed to Wilcox Memorial Hospital. She lost approximately 60 percent of her blood.

Bethany Hamilton said that If she wanted the change of what happen she said that she would allow the shark attack to happen because she knew that god let the attack happen.

Bethany overcame her fear. She was scared to get back in the water. She was probably scared to think that her