(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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