Alexis Madgrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic, an American magazine founded in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts as a literary and cultural commentary magazine.

Madrigal talks about the cookie cutter attack on Mike Spalding in Hawaii in an article entitled, The Most Terrifying Description of Ocean Swimming I’ve Ever Read.

While Spalding’s bite is well-known in the open water swimming world, it is much less well-known among those outside the community. The Atlantic article about the Pacific attack will change that equation.

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