Paul de Gelder, a former diver in the Australian Navy, came face to face with death in February 2009. During a routine counter-terrorism training exercise, conducted near Garden Island in Australia’s Sydney Harbour, the then 31-year-old was ravaged by a nine-foot bull shark, resulting in the loss of his right leg and part of his right arm.
Mr. de Gelder subsequently embarked on a grueling months-long recovery process and was fitted with a prosthetic hand and leg—a riveting journey he documented in his 2011 memoir “No Time for Fear: How a Shark Attack Survivor Beat the Odds.”
