Leonardo DiCaprio has cheated death three times in his life and lived to tell the tale.
The movie star is winning great reviews for his role as a real-life bear attack survivor in The Revenant, and he has opened up about his own near-death experiences in a plane, a shark cage and while skydiving.
The adventurer tells Wired magazine a great white shark "jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa".
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"Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me," he recalls. "They leave the tops open and you have a regulator line running to the surface. Then they chum the water with tuna. A wave came and the tuna sort of flipped up into the air. A shark jumped up and grabbed the tuna, and half its body landed inside the cage with me. I sort of fell down to the bottom and tried to lie flat.