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Bethany and her parents have a great realtionship! Bethanys parents have always been there to cheer her on at competitions. They are also there to help her with life problems and struggles.
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Bethany Hamilton was born Feb 8th 1990 on Kauai,Hawaii. Her parents names are Tom and Cary Hamilton.She also has to brothers named Timmy and Noah.
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Bethany has a great relationship with God! She belives he is the reason for all her surfing wins. She also belives she can do everything through Christ who gives her strength.
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On september 11 2001 there was attacks on the world trade center. The attacks killed hundreds of people.
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Sarah is a close family friend of the Hamiltons,who just so happens to be Bethanys youth pastor. Bethany and Sarah are very good friends! She helped Bethany undersatnd why God put her through this.
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One helloween morning Bethany her friend Alona and Alona's brother and dad decided to go surfing. They were surfing and then the waves stoped so they waited in the water for the waves to start. While they were waiting a shark came and ripped Bethanys arm off! Then she was rushed to the hospital because she was losing most of her bodies blood!
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When Bethany got home from the hospital she had a hard time ajusting toher new life! She could not do things she could before like getting dressed and picking up things at the store.
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A few weeks after the attack Bethany wanted to start surfing agian. So,Bethany and her family went out to surf. Bethany had a hard time standing up on the bord but she tried and tried and she got up. It was still very hard to get up so her dad put a handel on the bord to help her!
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Since Bethany has such a great story movie producers wanted to make it into a movie and they did.They did! It came out on April 8th 2011. It was a big hit.
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Now Bethany still lives in Kauai,Hawaii with her family. Bethany is about to turn 22 this Febuary.Her movie came out April 8th 2011.Also Bethanys dreams of being a pro surfer came true and she treavels that world for surfing comptitions.
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Osama was one of the men involed in many terist attacks like the on on the world trade center.The US has been trying to kill him for 10 years but finaly on May 1st 2011 they did.
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Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 25-30. It caused thousands of dallors in damage! The hurricane also killed lots of people.The clean up after the strom took several years!