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On Saturday, Sept. 6, Max Allen, 23, was wading through waist-deep water in Sydney, Australia, when he dove forward and unknowingly struck a hidden sandbar, fracturing his C5 vertebra

He's since undergone a six-hour operation, with surgeons removing the fractured vertebra, performing a bone graft, and securing his neck with plates and screws

Allen recently graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Urban Development and Sustainability

An American college graduate has a long road to recovery ahead of him after suffering life-changing injuries in a tragic accident just days after moving to Sydney, Australia.

On Saturday, Sept. 6, Max Allen, 23, who studied at the University of Arizona, headed to Balmoral Beach in downtown Sydney with friends after making the

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