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- Firefighter Mel Ismail lost his leg below the knee in a shark attack at Glenfield Beach on September 14.
- Surfer Shannan Dunn lifted Ismail onto her board and helped him reach shore.
- Ismail said he feels hopeful and plans to return to surfing as a bodyboarder.
- Sixty-three-year-old swimmer Greg O’Neill was killed by a white shark off Sorrento Beach, Perth, four days later.