A rough year.
The hits just keep coming for the BSR Cable Park there in Waco, Texas. It was reported yesterday that a 42-year-old man was pulled from the wave tank unresponsive on the night of July 4th and taken to a local hospital. Yesterday he was taken off life support and died. This is the second fatality associated with the Waco surf facility in under a year which makes for a rough one.
I am unaware of any other fatalities at any of the other Wavegardens around the world or at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch and it makes a man wonder if there is something in that central Texan water besides brain eating amoebas? Oh I am not an overly superstitious man but David Koresh and 79 of his Branch Davidian followers were burned to death just two miles down the road from the park.
Do you believe in curses? Ghosts? Etc.?
And do higher odds of dying at a wave tank than dying by shark in Ballina, Australia give you pause?
Many questions.
If I was a Texan named Stuart I’d put a hit out on you guys lol. Nice game you have going, predict the demise of something, then publish stories to hasten that outcome. Are you sure you’re not a wholly american company?
If it’s surf news when a drunk guy dies in a pool at night then y’all missed a few hundred potential stories this month. How about calling to see if he was surfing or a spectator? Lazy clickbait. (And yes, you got some ads out of me but I’ve purposely cut my viewing of this site by about half due to this kind of stuff.)
So to keep track. These pools are too safe to be a real challenge. But we can criticize them when they turn out to actually potentially have have the normal risks surfing?
Let’s hear more about that 2 wave hold down. But nah, that’d require a phone call and some writing. Best not stretch.
Thanks for bringing up David K and the branch Davidian! That was a big deal back in the day! And nobody’s brought it up as they are blinded by wave pool goggles…..never forget!!
Both Kelly’s pool and Snowdonia have the “drag the plow back and forth, one wave per geologic epoch” technology. Way fewer surfers, easier to keep an eye on.
Waco is the only thing currently going for new-school “crank out as many as you want” (AWM PerfectSwell, WaveGarden Cove) technology. Lots of waves, lots of surfers, the only people selling surfing (instead of dreams and bullshit) to the masses. They might have real safety problems, but it’s hard to compare them to something that doesn’t exist.
You are incorrect. Do more research. The Cove.
You mean Wavegarden Cove? Mentioned above, but the number open to the public remains at zero.
Floaty wings, more floaty wings.
Was there a couple of weeks ago, can see how something like that can happen. Especially at night. Believe it or not I had a two wave hold down!
Probably built on a Tawakoni burial site or some spot where the Spanish or Stephen F. Austin and his boys performed a little ethnic cleansing.
Sad story……would the time of the incident (10pm) and the day (July 4) suggest that alcohol or some other substance might have played more of a contribution in this horrific story?
One article said there was a 4th of July party from 7-10pm… Didn’t say if the wave pool was running or not, but sounded like that was where he was found.. at 10pm…
Geee, Ya think?!
What’s so horrible?
WTF!!!???
I feel so bad for the owners of BSR…
Your moral compass needs calibration there Sampson. You’re supposed to feel bad for the family of the deceased.
are we really talking about morals on Beach Grit?
Only nonsense. Morals being nonsense in the Hume’s fork sense, of course
He went out doing what he loved?
Meth, booze & fireworks?
…does not sound like that was surfing. Story not very clear on the activity the poor chap was doing that caused him to end up in the pool.
Yep! Gurgling, struggling to the surface, lungs slowly filling up with unnaturally blue/green piss water in shitty Texas. Its how we all want to go right?
I think fixed now! Sorry! I blame David Koresh.
i have thoughts, bad thoughts, bad puns, it’s too soon. i’ll just say i’m sorry the man died. even if… no, not yet.
Holy crap that was bad- thank you!!
The new Ads setting is so fucked!
Yeah he’s looking a little like Jaddy I thought, Ads needs to slow down
I’m getting this half page ad for how to camp in a lifeguard tower.