A photographer has recalled the day a shark bit his leg off and why he now fights to advocate for the creatures through portraiture — despite his life-changing injuries.
But in an unlikely twist, Coots went on to become a shark conservationist despite his brush with death.
“I went surfing with my friends when I was 18, paddling like any other morning and a tiger shark came up out of nowhere. It completely blindsided me and grabbed onto both of my legs,” Coots tells“I didn’t feel any pain whatsoever. I felt like I was almost watching it happen to somebody else — it was like an out-of-body experience in a way.
“I looked over my shoulder thinking it was a shark finishing me off and instead it was my leg severed right off.”Before the attack, the surfer-photographer says that he was “indifferent” to the predators in the ocean.
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