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Shark Attack Survivor Says She Willed Herself Back to Life

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Leah Stewart, 35, spent 10 days in a coma after being viciously mauled in the first shark attack at Sydney's Coogee Beach in over a century on June 13.

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He was doing his usual morning swim, a few tens of meters from the shore and within the area bounded by the security flags of Coogee Beach, in Sydney, when he was in front of a shark. Now, more than two months from that attack in which he lost his left arm and risked to die, Leah [...] The article "The shark arrived 30 centimeters from my face and began to open his mouth. I thought "I had to do something, otherwise he will take my head off. " Wh…

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Shark attack victim Leah Stewart recounts harrowing survival

Sydney woman Leah Stewart recounts her harrowing tale of survival on 60 Minutes after losing her arm in a shark attack.

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A woman narrowly escaped a deadly shark attack. Although she was badly injured and even lost an arm, she recounted how a single punch played a crucial role in saving her life.

The shark's mouth was just 30 centimeters away from her face when Australian teacher Leah Stewart punched it with her left hand, which saved her life but in return she had to lose one of her hands.

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