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Heartfelt thanks: How a paddleboarder survived a heart attack on the beach in St Andrews against all the odds by Nora McElhone
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Taking a snowy stroll in St Andrews, Bill Shackman looks to all intents and purposes like anyone else out enjoying the crisp winter weather. The affable north-American, who has lived in the university town with his wife Emily Michelson and their children for 11 years, is in fact filling me in on the details of his dramatic heart attack survival story, which took place just a few months previously.
On December 8 last year, Bill, 47, was enjoying the surf at East Sands when he collapsed on the beach. He doesn’t remember anything about what happened but has pieced the events together in retrospect. “I have no memory from the day; just a hazy recollection of the waves at West Sands looking too dangerous to enter.