Over time it has expanded worldwide to include any survivors of bites by animals. All of the 500 members have come close to death, usually after an altercation with an apex predator. They have ...

A 61-year-old man is recovering in the hospital after losing his leg in a shark attack in Hawaii Friday morning.

Rescuers applied tourniquets and took the 61-year-old man to a hospital in critical condition, officials said. Beaches were closed in the Waiehu Beach Park area.