December 8, 1963 a day like any other. At Alldinga Beach, the annual South Australian spearfishing championships are set to begin. 23 year old Rodney Fox, a life insurance salesman from Adelaide, and former champion, takes to the water. He sets his sights on a large reef fish. Little does he know that he himself is being stalked... By a great white shark. Through a series of near miracles, Rodney Fox arrives at Royal Adelaide Hospital in under an hour. The vascular surgeon there has just returned from an international conference with the very latest in surgical techniques. They go to work on the mutilated body delivered to the operating theater. The shark has punctured his left lung, left clavicle, and diaphragm. The jaws have bitten through all his ribs, gouged skin and muscle from his left side, and exposed several major organs. According to one surgeon, had Rodney arrived five minutes later, he would have bled to death. Sewn back together with over 450 stitches, he lies bedridden for two months with the pain, and the awful memory. Do you hope to continue skindiving one day? I'll get in the water somewhere sometime, but I don't know whether I'll go in this gulf here where there's been two or three attacks in the last few years.