The club bound by scars


(From left) Bite Club founder Pearson with members Craney, Kevin Young and Blair Hall sitting on the rocks at Crowdy Head in New South Wales, Australia. — Mridula Amin/The New York Times

IT was from a hospital bed, dazed by painkillers, media attention and the lingering shock of a brush with death, that Anika Craney saw the Facebook message: “Welcome to Bite Club.”

Days earlier, she had been free-diving in the Great Barrier Reef when she saw a shark charging toward her.

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