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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 166: Surviving the Shark Filled Sea
Description: Surviving the Shark Filled Sea
As an adult, I realized I had an irrational fear of sharks. Given that I grew up in rural Illinois with the nearest shark about 3000 miles away, this fear didn’t make sense to me. I went through my childhood memories, and found the source of this fear: A Reader’s Digest article recounting the survival story on one Walter Wyatt, Jr. In this story, Walter fights off three sharks while waiting to be rescued, with only a leaky life vest to keep him afloat. *Spoiler Alert* When you read this story at nine y...