Ohio Attorney Survives Shark Attack

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Posted Jul 23, 2007, 06:49 pm CST
By Martha Neil

Harvey Miller is thanking his lucky stars. One, that he survived a rare shark attack off of Oahu, while snorkeling on vacation in Hawaii last week. And, two, that he probably isn't going to lose the leg that the 8-foot tiger shark chomped.

A doctor says the 36-year-old Toledo lawyer should be walking again in a few months and playing basketball with his son within a year, reports the Associated Press. Such shark attacks where Miller was snorkeling, about 450 feet offshore of Bellows Beach, are so rare that one hasn't occurred for nearly 50 years.

Miller says he fought the shark off by punching it twice, but nonetheless feared he was about to die as he tried to fight his way back to shore. He credits a stranger with saving his life by responding to his cries for help and wading into the water to help him back to the beach. "He's my hero," Miller says. "I would not have made it out of the water without his assistance. I owe my life to that man."

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Posted by Bob Briggs - 1 year, 4 months, 1 week, 2 days, 4 hours ago

Glad he survived. Unfortunately Harvey will likely become the butt of many jokes now, it would have made a better headline if he had fought the shark off, as most of us do, using his mouth. Headline: Lawyer bites shark….
Posted by Michael A. White - 1 year, 4 months, 1 week, 1 day, 22 hours, 58 minutes ago

Whatever happened to “Professional Courtesy”?
Posted by Fernando Rivero - 1 year, 4 months, 6 days, 7 hours, 39 minutes ago

I was hoping to see a legal issue in the article or a reason why this would be published in the ABA Journal apart from the career of the victim. While glad that the victim survived, perhaps the ABA can do a little more legal reporting and leave these types of stories to other more appropriate publications.

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