This surfer is committed to saving sharks — even though he lost his leg to one of them

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By Samantha LarsonAug 21, 2015, 5:08 am59 pts
On an early October morning in 1997, on the west side of the island of Kauai, 18-year-old Mike Coots got in the water with his bodyboard, as he had done hundreds of times before, and started to paddle out. He and his friends went about 300 feet from the shore until they reached the surf break, in water that was…

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