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PAUL DE GELDER

BASED: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Paul de Gelder’s life reads like a Boy’s Own Adventure. From rebel, drug dealer, and strip club worker, to adventurer, soldier, fitness enthusiast, Navy diver, motivational speaker and mentor to kids across Australia, Paul is an exceptional man. On February 11th, 2009 Paul was on exercise in Sydney Harbour bet ween Garden Island and Mrs Macquarie’s Chair when he was attacked by a massive bull shark resulting in the loss of his left leg and right hand.

Paul’s recovery is an inspirational story of mental and physical courage. At 32 he doesn’t ever let his sit uat ion let him down, even to the point of selecting black prosthetics so as not to hide them. Discharged from hospital, Paul refused to go to a rehabilitation institute and declined sessions with a counsellor; instead he chose to do it all himself – with a little help from his friends. Four months after the attack he went skydiving wit h his partner . Today he’s back surfing, driving a car and pumping out 20 chin ups wit h t h e help of specially designed prosthetics. He’s flown a plane, raced a Porsche and amazingly, has dived with sharks twice since in an oceanarium.

Paul speaks from the heart about overcoming adversity, to beat the odds through the combination of physical strength, mental toughness and the sheer will to live. His presentations range from talking with kids with cancer who he says are far worse off than him, to personnel from the US Navy's diving branch who recently flew him to San Diego and gave him a standing ovation. Improvise...Adapt...Overcome... has become his mantra, echoing that of the US Marines. It is a lesson that we each owe to ourselves to help us make the best of our lives. Paul’s story will simply in spire you.

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