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A Destin, Florida, surfer, Jack Timothy Dicus, and Christopher White, a vacationer who also is a Carrollton, Georgia, volunteer firefighter, were also among the recent group of people honored by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.
According to the Pensacola News Journal, Dicus was surfing, and White was paddling a raft in the Gulf of Mexico's waters off Sandestin, Florida, last June when they witnessed a shark attack 14-year-old Jamie Daigle from Gonzales, Louisiana. Miss Daigle and a friend were on a boogie board 150 yards offshore when the eight-foot bull shark, a particularly aggressive species, attacked.
Dicus pulled Miss Daigle onto White's raft and fought off the ferocious shark as both men pushed the raft toward shore. Unfortunately, the ...