CROWDY BAY NATIONAL PARK, AUSTRALIA—The first rule of Bite Club is you talk to Dave Pearson, a shark attack survivor who connects hundreds of people from around the world to support each other “beyond the bite.”
The 58-year-old almost died a decade ago when a bull shark tore into his arm while he was surfing off Australia’s east coast.
Since the day when friends hauled him to shore—away from the three-meter predator that dragged him around the bottom of the ocean before losing interest—he has been helping others escape the psychological grip of nightmare attacks.
“My life is shark attacks,” the wind, sun and surf-weathered Aussie told Agence France-Presse (AFP), still …
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