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Ms Mondy remembers the attack like it was yesterday. It came straight up from underneath. My arm was beside my head. A jaw either side of my face and arm, essentially I was looking down its throat, she said. It launched out of the water with me in its mouth and then it has taken me back under with it.
Ms Mondy managed to make it back to the surface before being rushed to the John Hunter Hospital in a Westpac rescue helicopter.
She spent 16 hours in emergency surgery thinking she was going to die.
Reminders of the horrific attack are with her all the time.
Bite Club: Shark attack survivors find solace and support in unity
The first rule of Bite Club is you talk to Dave Pearson, the shark attack survivor who supports people around the world beyond the bite .
The 58-year-old shark attack survivor lived to tell the tale after a bull shark tore into his arm while he was surfing off Australia’s East coast a decade ago.
Since the day when friends hauled him to shore away from the three-metre 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.
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 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-metre predator that dragged him around the bottom of the ocean before losing.