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TIL 17x swimming champ Shavarsh Karapetyan after a 12mile run heard a bus crash into the water.Dove 30 feet breaking the backwindow saving 20 lives 1 at a time.Ended his sports career from cuts he received by broken glass,raw sewage in the water getting into his lungs.He was ina coma for 45days.

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