Then paddles to the beach and fixes himself up!
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. Oregonians are the best people on earth. Tough, cool under fire, emotionally intelligent. And let us look at the case of Portland surfer Joseph Tanner who was attacked while surfing Indian Beach, south of Seaside. Let’s read about how he punched the shark, paddled to shore and led the first aid team as they stopped his bleeding. Let’s read it all in the Oregonian, a proud paper of a proud people.
A Portland surfer bitten by a shark Monday off the Oregon coast was yelling “help” as he headed to shore on his surfboard, a 911 caller reported.
The caller was one of several to phone dispatch after the attack, which left Joseph Tanner, 29, with serious leg injuries. He said Tanner had been pulled from the water off Indian Beach about a minute before and that someone was wrapping a tourniquet.
Tanner told people how to help: He directed them how to put on the makeshift tourniquet — his surfboard leash — and how to apply pressure to his wounds, a volunteer responder said. He’s a trauma nurse, according to the Daily Astorian.
“To be in that much pain (and) just be in that situation, I couldn’t believe the amount of calmness he had,” said Shaunna White, a Cannon Beach Fire & Rescue volunteer.
White said Cannon Beach police had put on a second tourniquet by the time she arrived with the second wave of responders. Tanner wasn’t bleeding at that point, she said.
She said he had two large lacerations on his upper thigh and that his main injury was on the bottom of his thigh, which was open and lacerated. Tanner’s leg wasn’t severed, she said.
Tanner described the attack to responders, White said.
She said he told them he was just about to jump back on his surfboard when the shark pulled him down. He punched the shark a few times, it released him and he got back on his board and paddled to shore.
And, if you were in a nasty pinch like this would you be a level-headed machismo or a crying li’l weirdo?
you sound like a Bitch Chas
So chuck Norris moved to Oregon, cool.
You mean he’s not the state mascot?
Chas is from there so it kind of balances out the gnarly scale according to the latest census. His white loafer collection really threw the curve for all the tough lumberjacks and shit.
I’m crying like Ol’ Jordy just reading about it!
Who you callin’ old? (sob)
Regardless of your age, you have the areolae of a much younger man!