Overview
- At age 23, Fox was mauled by a great white during the South Australia Spearfishing Championship at Aldinga Beach, suffering major wounds to his chest, stomach and leg.
- A fellow diver pulled him from the water, and he survived after urgent hospitalization and a lengthy recovery.
- He later created a sea-floor shark cage experience through Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions and founded the Fox Shark Research Foundation in 2001.
- Fox and his son Andrew still run the expeditions and remain active in research and public outreach.
- He consulted on the film Jaws, built a notable shark memorabilia collection, and urges people to view great whites as vital, rarely confrontational animals.