SOUL SURFER inspiration Bethany Hamilton began surfing at a young age, but when she was 13 years old, a shark attack that ...

Bethany Hamilton ... for 12 months to qualify for women’s sports. Hamilton, whose story inspired the film “Soul Surfer,” told ...

Surfer Bethany ... Hamilton said. “Mike’s [words] were all I needed, and I still surf with him to this day.” Hamilton’s story, which she told in her 2004 autobiography “Soul Surfer ...