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Shark woman Dawn Schauman's story has been the subject of magazine feature articles, included in a PBS segment, and she has been a guest of television talk show hosts.
Dawn is a skilled lifeguard with a deep respect for the sea. When
she went for a swim while 6 1/2 months pregnant, she never expected
a Shark Attack!
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| Time Magazine, July 30, 2001 |
| Dawn's story is included in this issue's cover story,
"Summer of the Shark." Read
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| Press Journal, July 24, 2001 |
| Before swimming with sharks, go surfing with your computer.
In the past eight years since former Indian River County lifeguard
Dawn Schauman was attacked by a bull shark, the most common question
she’s fielded is whether she’s returned to the ocean. Read
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| Ladies Home Journal - August
1999 |
| Plenty of mothers have horror stories about their first
pregnancies - nonstop morning sickness, babies born in cars on the
way to the hospital. But mine tops them all. How many women can boast
that they carried a baby to term while recovering from a shark attack?
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| Press Journal, October 27,
1993 |
| A county lifeguard, 6 1/2 months pregnant with her first
child, was attacked by a shark Tuesday while swimming training laps
off Indian River County's northern coast.
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| National Examiner, January
25, 1994 (USA) |
| "I should have listened to my husband!" That's
what six-months'-pregnant lifeguard Dawn Schaumann says to herself
every day since she was ripped to shreds by a gigantic shark.
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| New Woman, September 2000 (Australia) |
| "I saw the red flesh of my thigh hanging like raw
meat..." Plenty of mothers have horror stories about their first
pregnancies -- non-stop morning sickness, giving birth in a car on
the way to a hospital... but lifeguard Dawn Schauman's tops them all.
She and her unborn baby were attacked by a ten-foot shark |
| Taken within 1st week of attack |
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| Began full-time career in 1987 |
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Dawn's love of the outdoors and working out led to her becoming a full-time lifeguard at the age of twenty.
She especially enjoyed lifeguard competitions, which consist of a number of swimming, sprinting and running events. They were even better when she brought home the medals!
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