This looks bad

by **scuba steve** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:01 pm

http://www.surfline.com/surfnews/articl ... fm?id=6840

I wonder if he's still alive?

by **essex sucks** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:03 pm

seems weird

by **scuba steve** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:05 pm

doesnt it. How do you just disappear? Maybe he just got taken away with a current, but then why isnt he with his board?

by **tomcat360** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:03 pm

Yeah, I heard about that on swaylocks. Apparently he was a really great shaper and surfer. He was out on a log that day, usually on a shortboard, but I doubt that had anything to do with it, considering he could shred on either.

by **FormosanSurfer** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:04 pm

Thats sad

by **gdude335** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:06 pm

wierd..
i wonder what happened to him or where he could be?
any big sized animales near the north shore??
hmm thats really wierd.

by **Driftingalong** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:35 pm

I would guess that he either got knocked unconscious/dead on the reef and was carried out to sea with the current, or is still trapped/pinned in a crevasse/cave in the reef. Truly sad...

by **danny1** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:42 pm

pipe takes another...malik last year, japenese dude the year before...RIP

by **Mitur Bin'esderty** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:49 pm

what scares me is that this are pros and been surfing for years...just shows the power of nature

by **Dec** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:24 am

Definately easily done! If you check out the north shore reefs they are full of caves, holes, caverns...and it is all razor sharp!

More than likely he drowned whilst being held down by some of the reef..or he smacked his head on the reef.

His board washed up because if 12ft waves constantly crashed on a dead body...eventually something has got to give (hate to say it).

And maybe he wasn't surfing with a leash?

by **thaya** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:35 pm

that sounds awful. poor guy.

by Lisa* » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:45 pm

Driftingalong wrote:I would guess that he either got knocked unconscious/dead on the reef and was carried out to sea with the current, or is still trapped/pinned in a crevasse/cave in the reef. Truly sad...

that's what i thought... it really is scary

xx

by **Adrenaline Fueled** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:08 pm

It always gets me when you read about people who were engaged... The whole things tragic. Just goes to show, never take the power of the sea for granted! I always remember a saying: 'It is the strong swimmer who often drowns.'
Hope he didn't suffer...

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