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VALERIE IS STILL SWIMMING WITH SHARKS ...AT86!

It’s not often you hear of an 86-year-old woman donning a hot-pink wetsuit to go swimming with sharks – but Valerie Taylor isn’t your average woman.

Despite being bitten by sharks on four separate occasions over the years, the spearfishing champion-turned-conservationist has spent most of her life exposing the myth surrounding the public’s fear of

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