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Pierre, 48, lives in Nouméa, New Caledonia. In June 2016, he crossed the road of a bulldog shark while kite-surfing. Believing to die, he had an unsuspected reflex that allowed him to regain miraculously almost the shore. Since then, this forty-year-old speaks of "bonus" to evoke his survival, which made him change his attitude on many things. He is also back on the water, as he tells the microphone Europe 1 Eve Roger.
"I was finishing my foil session, a kite-surf mounted on a carbon mast, so that the board comes out of the water.On the end of the session, I make a last edge and when I get off at 500 meters from the edge, pretty much, I do a jibe , which is a U-turn, I was up on the board, but as we lose speed, the board went back down to find itself on the water.
"At first I thought it was a boat"
"There, a bulldog shark that must have been a few dozen meters confused me with a bird that landed on the surface." He attacked me from behind, he crunched the board and crunched the back of me. I felt a shock, he was thrown like a bull.It weighed about 300 kilos, I waltzed in the air because it made me fall foil . thought it was a boat that had attacked me, so shock was violent.
I ended up with water up to my chin, I turned my head and saw that he was coming back to see me. The fin was three meters from me, mouth at the end of the arm. It was a pretty petrifying face-to-face. I realized that I was going to die. I knew I was at home and he was going to do what he wanted with me. When I saw that it was a big one, the brain recorded the fact that I was dead, there was no longer any doubt. I did not see my life go by because it happens so fast ... There is a terrible awareness.
In the next quarter of a second, there is a particular and unsuspected reflex, a cry of survival that came up from deep within me and I started screaming at him. Fortunately, my wing had remained in the air. Reflexively, I swung it away from him. I think he had already broken his teeth on my board, when I fell into the water, he saw that I was not a bird, so I was not the target he imagined. I think he did not insist, which is rare in a bulldog. "
" You can attach spiritual or whatever you want, but I really see it as a new life ""After that, it was not quite over there because I fought for 500 meters to get back to the shore, dragging me out of the wing, I felt like I had to escape. that to survive and move on, when I came to earth I really felt like a bonus gift.
I should have stayed there, it was clear, there was all that was needed for him to finish, and no, it did not happen that way. You can attach spiritual or whatever you want, but I really see it as a new life. I think this feeling of bonus is pretty definitive and I will tell myself until the end of my days that I have a new life. We benefit more from life, because I do not tell myself every minute that these are the last moments. We relativize a lot of things and we attach more value to important and profound things.
Three days ago, I saw the first person who picked me up on the edge of the earth and told me that I was going to have a lot of nightmares. In fact, I only made one: I was doing the plank on the surface of the water and there was a danger rising from the depths of the sea.
I took the time to do three sessions of a brief therapy to manage the emotional shock. Kite-surfing is my passion for fifteen years: as soon as I was healed, a month later, I was on the water and since, I sail twice a week. "
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