Tras ser rescatada de la playa, Leah Stewart fue hospitalizada de emergencia, inducida a coma y sometida a múltiples operaciones por la gravedad de sus lesiones.

The thought of not being there for her daughter helped Leah Stewart beat the shark away. But her fight was only beginning after making it to shore.

Leah Stewart says it was the love for her little girl and the thought of her growing up without a mother, that helped her conquer a great white.