Ex-navy diver Paul de Gelder, who grew up in Canberra, lost his right hand and leg in an horrific Sydney Harbour bull shark attack, and is now starring on Channel Nine's new show Shark! putting celebrities face-to-face with their greatest fear, these apex predators of the deep.
On the debut episode of Shark! on Sunday night, de Gelder, an expert on the show, revealed that before the 2009 attack he hated sharks, but all that had changed in the years after that agonising eight-second mauling, as he worked to prove to people around the world that they had little to fear from the big fish.
