Arctic Surfer Escapes 2 Great White Sharks Attack

I'm Shannon Ainsley, an arctic surfer. I was attacked by two four meter great white sharks. At this point I'm like, I'm gonna die today. Today's my last day. I used to go through seasons in my life where I used to be so angry and I used to just fight all the time and I did karate at the time so I knew how to fight and I kind of liked it. I used to fight with my brother, my sister, my friends and even strangers. I struggled a lot personally and my dad worked really hard as a single parent to try make it for us. When I was 13 years old my dad had to go work a lot during the Easter vacation and he didn't know where to leave us and so he managed to buy a secondhand surfboard and he dropped myself and my brother off at the beach with the surfboard, a loaf of bread each and a bag of bananas each and said guys stay here, I'll pick you up later. Later was 12 hours later. I think on the second or third day both my brother and myself got hot and we loved surfing. We just totally fell in love with the sport and from that day onwards I wanted to be a surfer and I heard Reef at that stage had some of the most fatal shark attacks in the world. It's very common to see sharks there and everyone's kind of afraid of the spot. Eventually I went and surfed there with one of my best friends and I remember the first time feeling so nervous walking over the reef, the rocks and dodging some sea urchins, catching a couple of waves and in between the waves just like always looking around and wondering where the sharks were but I survived. We should have gone to another beach for the training but we ended up going to Nahoon Reef because we knew that it was good. About an hour and a half into the surf, some surfers started getting out of water, my brother included and I had no idea why. Sometimes when you see these birds diving, surfers just get out of water because they know that there could be sharks around, big sharks. I looked at this wave and I was like so I turned around and I started paddling all the way. While paddling, all of a sudden BAM! I got hit. I got hit so hard from this one shark from the left that came from underneath, bumped me right into the sky, flipped me around, grabbed my surfboard in my hand and dragged me underwater with it. While that was happening, the other shark on my right missed me because the shark on my left got me first and it happened so quickly. I had absolutely no idea what was going on. Everything slowed down and I thought I was dreaming. It was the weirdest feeling ever and of course I thought I was dreaming even when the shark grabbed me, bit me and pulled me underwater. I felt no fear and no pain whatsoever. It happened so quickly and so unexpectedly I thought I was dreaming. Here's this 4 meter great white shark just staring at me this close with his mouth wide open and his eye just making contact with my eye and we had this moment, the shark and myself. I was staring at the shark and the shark was staring at me and we were both confused. I had no idea what was going on. So we had this moment, I could see all of his teeth, big wide sharp scary looking teeth and then it swam away, swam past me and around and kind of shoved me forward from behind along my back. I got to the surface of the water, I saw my surfboard lying in front of me and I was so confused. I'm like what? One moment I was paddling for a wave and the next moment our board is lying in front of me. So all the surfers started paddling frantically towards the beach and catching the last one or two waves in the set and all of a sudden there I am left all alone in the water. So I jump onto my surfboard, pull my right hand over and across to start paddling and I see my fingers hanging off, my pinky finger, my ring finger, my right hand hanging off by its skin. I could see the bones, there was a big bite to my hand as well, glad just rushing out, a bite to my wrist bone, the wrist bone was broken and I'm like I just got attacked by a shark. My worst nightmare just happened and that's when I started panicking and my worst nightmare became my reality and I remember looking around trying to catch the wave and there were no waves to catch and here I am left 100 meters out at sea all by myself. Everyone caught the last few waves, there were no waves for me to catch, there I am by myself alone with two sharks coming after me. It was so scary. I remember shaking so much, crying, panicking, freaking out, trying to paddle towards the beach and every time I took a stroke I feel my fingers like about to come off and I'm looking over my left shoulder, over my right shoulder, underneath me, in front of me, behind me, expecting these sharks to come back for me. It was the scariest moment and the worst feeling ever knowing that you were going to get eaten. I just had this feeling, I'm like I'm going to die today, today's my last day and I remember like feeling so hopeless and like oh what should I do and then I'm like oh let me pray and I started praying, please Jesus keep me safe and protect me, get me back to the beach and fortunately I didn't know where this wave came. I caught this wave, I got to shore, made it out safely and alive. One surfer tied a leash or a leg rope around my arm to stop the bleeding from my fingers. Another person wrapped a towel around my hand. So my brother rushed into the hospital, he like raced and rushed through all these red traffic lights and he never even had a driver's license. Getting to the hospital, his nurses come to my aid, look at my hand and they're like you'll be okay, just wait here. So I ended up waiting about five hours for the hand surgeon to operate on my hand but fortunately he managed to fix my hand pretty well and sew my fingers back on so I'm very happy about that. So I'm lying with my arm like this after the operation, TV is on and there's this guy on BBC World News speaking about my shark attack and I'm like what and it just made me think about my attack again and realize how blessed and fortunate I am to be alive and I was like God please help me with those internal shark attacks too and from that day onwards everything changed. I felt like I was given a second chance and I was given joy, peace, purpose and abundant life. It was the best feeling ever and that's when my life changed. Thanks for watching, press follow and subscribe for more and I'll see you next time.