Bethany Hamilton: Shark Attack--The Real Story — Transcript

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1. 0:09You know, she's always been a surfer.
2. 0:11She's been little little surfer out at
3. 0:14the beach, you know, running down the
4. 0:16beach, playing at the beach all day
5. 0:17long.
6. 0:19Ever since Bethany was a little baby, I
7. 0:21knew she was special.
8. 0:25You can't really train someone to be
9. 0:26like that. Some people have Some people
10. 0:29don't. And Bethany's one of those people
11. 0:31that had it.
12. 0:36Halloween day, 2003, it was um just like
13. 0:40every other day, like
14. 0:42woke up and
15. 0:44went surfing.
16. 0:45And probably about a half an hour, 45
17. 0:48minutes after you're out there,
18. 0:50that was when it happened.
19. 1:00It happened so fast, there wasn't much
20. 1:02time to think.
21. 1:04Then all of the sudden, it just like I
22. 1:06felt like a tug on my board.
23. 1:08Right away, I knew what was happening.
24. 1:12It happened so fast, there wasn't much
25. 1:14time to think. The shark had just taken
26. 1:17my arm.
27. 1:20You know, we didn't hear anything or all
28. 1:22of the sudden, we Bethany just goes, um
29. 1:24I got attacked by a shark, and she
30. 1:25started paddling in towards us.
31. 1:28I looked down and saw that my whole arm
32. 1:30was gone, and I don't know, it just
33. 1:31freaked me out.
34. 1:34Yeah, when we when we're paddling in, I
35. 1:35I didn't think she was going to make it.
36. 1:38Your arm is gone, like
37. 1:39I didn't I was so like devastated. I
38. 1:42thought I lost my surf buddy.
39. 1:44I mean, you don't think someone's going
40. 1:45to make it through that, and I knew how
41. 1:47you know, we we were 20 minutes from the
42. 1:48beach.
43. 1:50When I got to the beach,
44. 1:52there were some people waiting on the
45. 1:52beach cuz Byron had told them what
46. 1:54happened, and Uh, helped me, you know,
47. 1:56drag Bethany up on the shore.
48. 1:59Right before we were heading to the
49. 2:01hospital, um, one of the paramedics came
50. 2:03up to me and he whispered, "God will
51. 2:06never leave you and nor forsake you." in
52. 2:08my ear.
53. 2:15Sometimes we don't know why bad things
54. 2:17happen in our lives.
55. 2:18Until now, I wasn't sure of that,
56. 2:20either.
57. 2:50I just see it as an uh, chance to share
58. 2:53my faith and my story.
59. 3:06Three weeks after the attack, uh, I was
60. 3:08down at the beach watching all my
61. 3:09friends surf.
62. 3:11Bethany just really wanted to surf, even
63. 3:13though she wasn't supposed to.
64. 3:15Cuz we kind of had planned for her to
65. 3:17surf on Thanksgiving Day.
66. 3:20But, uh, the day before Thanksgiving,
67. 3:21she called us and she says, "I'm going
68. 3:23out already."
69. 3:24So, we both down on the beach. We got
70. 3:26down there and Bethany, uh,
71. 3:28she was amping to go out, like, just
72. 3:30couldn't wait to go out.
73. 3:32There was somebody had a longboard. I
74. 3:33don't know if you remember whose it was,
75. 3:34but she just paddled out on it, you
76. 3:36know, just to see her back in the water.
77. 3:38She still had a bandage on her arm.
78. 3:40Good for her.
79. 3:56So we slammed out and my dad had a
80. 3:57stance he kicked out next to Bethany and
81. 4:00basically she didn't want any help. I
82. 4:01realized how hard it was going to be cuz
83. 4:03she was on a longboard and
84. 4:05just getting to her feet and catching
85. 4:06waves it was a real
86. 4:08a real struggle but
87. 4:10one thing she's always been is a very
88. 4:11determined young girl.
89. 4:13My first two waves I tried to get up and
90. 4:16it was just it was hard. It was
91. 4:18definitely hard and I was just trying to
92. 4:19figure it out and I I couldn't do it and
93. 4:22I was
94. 4:23it just kind of scared me cuz I thought
95. 4:24I might not be able to do this.
96. 4:28The first couple waves, you know, she
97. 4:30couldn't really get the balance, you
98. 4:31know, sit she she couldn't really figure
99. 4:33out where to put her hand.
100. 4:35My dad offered help and I was like, "No,
101. 4:37I got to do this on my own."
102. 4:40And so the long she got up on her third
103. 4:42wave.
104. 5:02When I saw her up on those third, fourth
105. 5:04waves, you know, just doing it I was
106. 5:06just so stoked for her man just cuz I
107. 5:08could see the smile that brought into
108. 5:10her heart.
109. 5:12It was so special cuz it was like a rush
110. 5:15and even though it was like a small tiny
111. 5:17junk wave it was like
112. 5:20the rush was as good or even better than
113. 5:23any like good wave I had gotten before.
114. 5:28It was just kind of like it all started
115. 5:29to come together that day.