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Bruno was born in the war torn country of Rhodesia.

Through the 1970's he spent a wild childhood experiencing terrorist bomb attacks as well as lions,leapards,elephant and baboons on his walks to school.His parents survived a passenger airplane crash ,the 1978 HUNYANI disaster and the family then fled the war into the confusing apartheid era of South Africa where he finished school and studied mechanical engineering through the Navy.

In his 20’s Bruno was a surfer, sailor, free diver, life guard, engineer, and did service in two different militaries. He loved any kind of adrenaline adventure sport, and went on to become captain of a charter yacht taking surfers around some of the world's best waves. Life could not have been better.

At the age of 27 Bruno was victim of a carjacking gone wrong in Cape Town, South Africa which left him paralysed from the waist down. Bruno sustained a complete T-12 fracture leaving him “legless”and in a wheelchair. Feeling hopeless and extremely depressed, he thought his life of being a waterman was over. A year after his accident, once he had left the rehabilitation centre, he attempted suicide. He was determined to drown.