Surfers attempt rescue.A Destin, Florida For Céline Dion's single by the same name, see Destin. Destin is a city in Okaloosa County, Florida, commonly known as "The World's Luckiest Fishing Village."[1] Destin has grown from a historic fishing village to a premier resort destination. , surfer, Jack Timothy Dicus, and Christopher White Christopher White is Child ballad 108. Synopsis A maid bemoans the absence of her lover, Christopher White. A merchant offers to marry her instead. She tells him that if she was false to her lover, she'd be false to him. He offers more and more until he persuades her. , a vacationer who also is a Carrollton, Georgia Carrollton is a small city in west central Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. It is the county seat of Carroll County, and the largest town in the county, with a 2005 estimated population of 21,837. , volunteer firefighter, were also among the recent group of people honored by the Carnegie Hero Fund The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, also known as Carnegie Hero Fund, was established to recognize persons who perform extraordinary acts of heroism in civilian life in the United States and Canada, and to provide financial assistance for those disabled and the dependents of Commission. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Pensacola News Journal The Pensacola News Journal is a daily (seven day, mornings) newspaper serving the Pensacola, Florida area. It is Northwest Florida's most widely-read daily. The News Journal is owned by Gannett Co. , 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 injuries were extensive and Miss Daigle never recovered from her wounds. When interviewed by the Associated Press, White said that the two men spotted the shark before it attacked: "I looked down and ... [the shark] was swimming at my feet. We stopped swimming, just went limp vertical in the water, just dangled my legs, tried not to look like any kind of food or anything." The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that Dicus heard a scream and then found Miss Daigle face down in a bloody circle of water. Her flesh had been torn from her hip to her knee. Dicus told the Associated Press on the day of the rescue: "Right next to her was the shark, about to come up and attack her again." |
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