Nicole Moore

Nicole Moore is a nurse from Orangeville, Ontario who was attacked twice by a bull shark in Cancun, Mexico on January 31, 2011. The bull shark attacked Moore while she was standing waist-deep in the ocean at a resort where she and her friends were staying on vacation. In the first strike, the shark swam up ripped into her upper left thigh, yanking away more than a foot of her skin while devouring two quadriceps and two hamstring muscles. After swimming off, the shark returned, this time circling around her body and lunging at her left arm. Nicole smashed her right first down on the animal's nose, yanking her left arm toward her body. She loosened the shark's grip, it let go, and swam off, leaving her to die.
She was eventually pulled to shore by a jet ski driver, where onlookers did what they could to help her. She lost 60% of her blood, a life-threatening situation. After doctors saved her life in Mexico, she was flown to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, where it was necessary to amputate her left arm and employ several surgeries to save her left leg.
Nicole does public speaking presentations, and helps to save sharks worldwide from the practice of finning.
Her life experiences have been written about in a book, Shark Assault: An Amazing Story of Survival and published by the Dundurn Group on November 2015.

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