Last year, on the anniversary of her attack, Korcsmaros took a quick dip in the water with one of her rescuers, lifeguard Andy Matsuyama. I want to be able to get wet and be in, but probably never be in the line up again. “I don’t know if I’ll ever get to the point to get back in the water. “I told her I’m not mentally or physically ready for that,” Ericson said of joining Korcsmaros’ swim.
With a foot that she can’t move or feel and a sciatic nerve still exposed, Ericson doesn’t have ocean plans anytime soon – she was able to get in the shallows of crystal-clear waters off Hawaii. “I think it’s kind of overcoming that leap, like getting back on the horse.” “I’ve been at the bluff looking at it, but I’ll be there soon,” he said. But he has yet to visit the spot where the shark got him. Webre-Hayes has also gotten back into the water, and has even done a few dives. “When I was ready, they were all ready with me.” He was able to do it, he said, because of the support of friends and fellow swimmers. “I had to do it right away, because (swimming) was such a big part of my life,” said Robles, who can be found swimming off Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach every weekend. Robles got back in the South Bay waters six weeks after his injury, knowing he had to go back to where the shark attacked him. Korcsmaros handed him a hat printed with “Come to the Shark Side.” Returning to the ocean
“It’s phenomenal to see that.”Īlso joining the group was Keane Webre-Hayes, a 14-year-old who was lobster diving off of Encinitas on Sept. “Wow, you can come back from these major injuries, to get back in the water today and face your fears,” he told her. John Moore was there on Friday for Korcsmaros’ swim back to the place she was attacked and talked about how inspiring she’s been. The athlete was saved, in large part, because she raised her arm high to signal for help to two Newport Beach lifeguards docked nearby. Her lung was punctured and several ribs were cracked.
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Her skin was pinched back together with 161 staples. The shark’s sharp teeth dug into her pelvis, her upper torso, up around her shoulder, her back and buttocks. “You two had it was worse than me,” Robles said of the two women survivors. Once airlifted to the hospital, she was in a coma for nine days. She showed where its bottom jaw got her on the top of her leg and how the top jaw bit around toward her buttock. “I saw the black hole, my brain went ‘I can hurt that,’” “I grabbed its nose and pushed it off of me.”Įricson, who lives in San Diego, went for the eye to get loose. Robles, who lives in Loma Linda, talked about how the teeth sang into his torso, right under his armpit around to his chest, for about five seconds.
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