Shark attack that turned into a lifelong obsession
News by Jane Hansen Premium Content At Coledale beach on the 27th of February 1966, 14-year-old Bob Myatt witnessed a terrifying yet incredible site. A boy around the same age as him was pulled from the water by surf lifesavers with a 2.5m great white shark's jaws still clamped onto his right leg. The boy, Raymond Short, had been swimming when the shark grabbed his left thigh then let go. As Ray started swimming to shore, the shark swallowed his leg up to his knee. Raymond Short was attacked by a shark at Coledale beach in 1966 when he was 13. And ...
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