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Bethany Hamilton the One Armed Surfer Never know how much someone needs something until it's gone. This was surfing to Bethany Hamilton. This is her story of fighting to get back in the water and all of the troubles that came with it. Bethany Hamilton was born on February 8, 1990 in Hawaii on the island of Kauai (Sandler 28). This is where her love of the water began. Her parents are Tom and Cheri Hamilton also surfers, along with their two other kids Timmy and Noah (Sandler 6). On the morning of Halloween in 2003 was the scariest moment in Bethany’s life. She and her friend Alana went surfing in that morning. She was waiting for a good wave, then out of nowhere a fourteen foot long tiger shark came up and ripped Bethany’s arm off. Bethany was rushed to the hospital and was losing lots of blood. Bethany had to have an amputation, a surgical removal of a body part. It is regular to the U.S to see shark attacks. They see attack like about thirty to forty times a year (Doyle). It has affected …show more content…

Bethany was so determined to keep surfing for as long as she can. She always said faith was on her side the whole time (O’Shei 16). Bethany still won many competitions with just one arm. It has been twelve years since the shark attack. She won the Teen Choice Award for her courage in 2004 (O’Shei 25). She was one of the guests on a” MTV” show called “Total Request Live” in December 2003. She advertized two lines of perfume (Sandler 25).
This is Carrie Underwood’s quote from the movie Soul Surfer “I don’t know why terrible things happen to us sometimes, but I have to believe something good is going to come out of this.” To sum up, if anyone believes in themselves, they know they can accomplish anything. It has been twelve years since the shark attack and Bethany is still doing what she

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