Hawaiian family surf documentary6/29/2023 Hamilton's father, who was scheduled to have knee surgery that same morning, was already there, but she took his place in the operating room with the same doctor. By the time she arrived there, she had lost over 60% of her blood and was in hypovolemic shock. Hamilton was rushed to Wilcox Memorial Hospital. The Blanchards helped paddle Hamilton back to shore, then Alana's father fashioned a tourniquet out of a rash guard and wrapped it around the stump of her arm. It swiftly bit off her left arm, which she had been dangling in the water, just below the shoulder. While Hamilton was lying on her surfboard stomach-down and talking with Alana, a 14-foot-long (4.3 m) tiger shark attacked her. On October 31, 2003, Hamilton, age 13 at the time, went for a morning surf along Tunnels Beach, Kauai, in shark-infested waters, with her best friend, Alana Blanchard, as well as Alana's father and brother. Hamilton was home-schooled from sixth grade through high school by her mother, a housewife, while her father was a waiter at a town café. After learning how to surf at the age of three, Hamilton began surfing competitively at the age of eight and gained her first sponsorship by age ten. She has two older brothers, Noah and Timothy. Hamilton was born on February 8, 1990, to Tom and Cheri Hamilton in Lihue, Hawaii. ![]() Hamilton was also the subject of a 2018 documentary, Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, which discusses her marriage to Adam Dirks and how marriage and motherhood have affected her professional surfing career. She wrote about her experience in the 2004 autobiography, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board, which was adapted into the 2011 feature film, Soul Surfer, in which she attributes her strength to her Christian faith. ![]() ![]() NSSA National Helping Kids Champion (2005)Ģnd place, ASP World Junior Championships (2008)īethany Meilani Hamilton (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional surfer and writer who survived a 2003 shark attack in which her left arm was bitten off and who ultimately returned to professional surfing.
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