The rest of the documentary tells that story: just shy of 4 weeks after the accident, Bethany was back out there, putting time into the ocean and the sport she was so passionate about, learning to surf her first waves with one arm. Normal life to Bethany was surfing at the top of her game and competing with the upper echelon of surfing. Mike Coots was definitely a key person in my life, in my journey and then from there my family and friends, and then just me having raw drive to just adapt and figure it out and get back to my normal life.” Bethany Hamilton Unstoppable “That’s the moment of community that really matters,” Bethany continues “Sometimes we can’t see the light and we need someone there to remind us, or to be our encourager, our backbone, when we’re just not there. You see a lightbulb go off in my eyes, laying there in my hospital bed, thinking ‘wait I can surf with one arm’ and then it was a matter of just waiting to give it a go and try.” “He was surfing with one leg, and I was in awe of him. Coots, a surfer himself and pro photographer who lost his leg to a tiger shark in 1997, visits Bethany in the hospital and tells her how he thinks surfing with one arm is totally possible and in fact, he had tried it that morning – and you see the lights go off in her eyes. But then a visit from Mike Coots would change everything. In the hospital, Bethany was a pillar of strength to those around her, telling her family and friends, ‘it’s going to be ok’ with a brave smile plastered across her face between a few moments when you see a young girl trying to come to terms with what’s just happened.
It was nothing short of a miracle she survived. Alana’s father, Holt, saved her life by getting her ashore and tying a tourniquet around her wound to stop the bleeding. After a terrible incident on the morning of Halloween 2003 while surfing with her best friend, Alana Blanchard, Bethany lost her left arm to a tiger shark attack off the coast of Kauai at a break called ‘Tunnels’. The story of Bethany Hamilton is one well told and documented in her autobiography and the subsequent film adaptation, Soul Surfer.
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