Channel Swimmer Uses Hypnosis for Shark-phobia

Suffolk & Essex Online by Mark Clarke

A terrifying childhood experience with a shark has not dissuaded a Suffolk paramedic from a cross-channel swim in aid of charity.

Mark Ransom has sought hypnotherapy to help him out in the open sea should he find himself in similar circumstances to his close encounter with a shark off Clacton at the tender age of 14.

Now 38 years old, the paramedic from Bury St Edmunds believes it was just a basking shark but he has still sought professional help to put the experience behind him for the upcoming swim in aid of East Anglia's Children's Hospices.

He said: “When I was 14 I was out swimming quite a way out at Clacton when it swam up to me and my brother. At the time I didn't know what it was - it was just a huge shark.

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