This is especially so once hearing how she survived a shark attack at 15-years-old in August of last year . These pictures show some of the stitches from Annabelle Carlson’s second surgery to repair her hands from the shark attack. “At first, my brain didn’t calculate what was going on — nothing in the shark attack hurt,” she said. … I can walk without a crutch, but I look a little weird.”An avid skier before the shark attack, she spent this past ski season learning all over again but with the help from Challenge Aspen. Annabelle Carlson getting back in the water for her first dive since the shark attack in August 2024.