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tl He thought that this was the end. He I Other spear-fishers heard him and
fought desperately, but the big shark hurried to help him. They lifted him
pulled hirn down and down. Then carefully into a boat and took hirn to
suddenly the rope broke and Fox the beach. The nearest hospital was 60
floated slowly to the surface. rShark! kilometres away and during the long
Shark!' he called. journey one of the spear-fishers held
Fox's insides in place. At the hospital
E Quickly he pushed his fingers into the he needed 462 stitches, but he
shark's eyes. The shark opened its survived.
rnouth and fox escaped, swirnrning as
fast as possible to the surface. He L-l So he kicked the shark's nose hard and
thought he was safe, but when he it tuzned away. But then it attacked the
looked down he saw the shark's huge fish on the buoy. It swallowed the
mouth just below him again. buoy and the fish, It dived down
and the rope on his belt pulled
-l Near the end of the day, he looked fox under the water again.
down and saw a largre fish on the
sand below hirn. He dived down Z It was 1963 and Rodney Fox
to get it. Suddenly sornething was in the sea off the coast of
hit him. It knocked the spear South Australia. It was the
gun frorn his hand and annual spear-fishing
pushed hirn through the championship. fox did well
water. He looked round and that day. IIe caught a lot of
saw that he was in the fish and he tied them to a
rnouth of a shark. ft was a small buoy, There vvas a
great white shark, one of rope frorn the buoy to his
the largest and most belt.
dangerous sharks in the
world.
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