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Nicole Moore doesn’t have nightmares about the full-grown shark that chomped into her left thigh as she stood waist-deep in the bright turquoise waters off Cancun, Mexico.

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She bares no psychological scars when recalling how she came face to face with her attacker as she tried to lift her left arm out of its clamped jaws.

And the Orangeville, Ont., nurse and mother of two, who lost 60% of her blood, two quadriceps and two hamstrings during the attack on her fit 38-year-old body, doesn’t show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. At least not yet, she says. “If it comes, it comes. I’ll take it.”

Perhaps most remarkably of all, Ms. Moore does not blame the shark.

“In fact,” she said in a sit-down interview with the National Post late last week, a little more than two years after her attack. “I’m actually on a mission to try to help keep them alive.”

It’s a difficult mental hurdle to jump: Why would a person who has more than every right to revile the slippery creatures, who had to have her arm amputated above the elbow and get a skin graft to fill in the part of her leg because of a fish’s taste for flesh, want anything to do with sharks, let alone save them?