"I would rate Jerry's actual shark bite as somewhere between surviving a parking ticket and hitting your thumb with a hammer." So true! The biggest scar in this instance was emotional, I think.
It's hard to keep your cool in the water after having a close encounter like this one.
As it turns out, Jerry is a shark biologist and he tells me that his scar resembles the coastline of North Carolina. At the time he was working on his dissertation and needed some momentum to finish. He considered it a sign. Thanks for reading.