Shark attack survivors bite back

Updated February 8 2016 - 1:10pm, first published 12:00am
Bite Club members (from left) Dale Carr, Kevin Young, Dave Pearson and Bruce Lucas. Photo: James Brickwood
Bite Club members (from left) Dale Carr, Kevin Young, Dave Pearson and Bruce Lucas. Photo: James Brickwood

Four men who have survived shark attacks wade into the cool, choppy ocean on a cloudy morning in Crowdy Head, on the NSW Mid-North Coast. Three are surfers, one rides a bodyboard. There's a wind from the south and a blowy, southerly swell. It's not the best surfing, but every wave is a prize for men who might never again have felt the sea on their skin. The ocean has taken something precious from each of them, although some have lost more than others.

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