[Music] two days after my college graduation last May I was on a vacation we were snorkeling in the ocean and seemingly out of nowhere a shark came up and started attacking us pretty quickly it had my leg in its mouth and the next thing I knew it had bitten off on my foot and part of my leg we made the Split Second decision to swim for our lives so we swam roughly 75 yards back to the boat in the open ocean water me footless and bleeding profusely swimming definitely saved my life you know I relied on 15 years of competitive swimming to give me any advantage in a situation where I had none it wasn't all you know rainbows and butterflies it took a while to get back to that love of the water um but I had glimmers of Hope [Music]