on the morning of 31 October 2003 Bethany Hamilton set off to go surfing with some friends in Hawaii. there was not a cloud in the sky the sun was shining and it was a perfect day for surfing on the big waves near the shores of Kauai island.
The 13 year old surfing star was lying face down on her surfboard about 300 meter from the beach she was waiting for the next big wave and her arms were hanging in the clear blue water suddenly a five meter tiger shark sank its sharp teeth into her left arm and shook her backwards and forwards Bethany gripped her board with her other hand and battled for her life finally the shark swam away but unfortunately it took her left arm with it it also took a huge piece of her board the attack happened so fast that Bethany did not even have time to scream at that time Bethany was an outstanding teenage surfer and was planning to become professional as soon as she was attacked she started worrying about her future career and thought will I lose my sponsors fortunately her survival instinct took control and she slowly headed for the beach her friends did not see the attack and as Bethany started swimming towards them using only one arm they thought at first that he was playing a joke in them then they saw her terrible wound and rushed most people take a long time to recuperate from an attack like the one Bethany had however ten weeks after the shark attack Bethany was competing again and less than a year after the accident she won first place in surfing competition in Hawaii before the accident a lot of professional surfers thought that Bethany was destined to be the women's world champion very few of them have changed their opinion.