(CNN) When Achmat Hassiem was attacked by a shark he feared his budding career as a semi-professional goalkeeper was over. "I just saw this fin moving on top of the water," Hassiem told CNN. I turned around to see what had happened and that's when I saw half my leg was in the shark's mouth already." Instead, just a few months later he was back in the water, training to become a world class swimmer. "It's absolutely phenomenal with the technology today that you can actually just be walking again if you've lost your legs."

Source: CNN September 06, 2016 10:52 UTC