A "good job."
But what would you say the is world’s most picturesque wave? Mundaka with that ancient church overlooking the reeling left? Nazare? Teahupoo, site of the 2024 Olympic Games? That one place in Australia with super blue water? Oh we surfers suffer an embarrassment of riches but I would argue that the world’s most picturesque wave is Fort Point, the wave that breaks underneath the famed Golden Gate Bridge.
And it is here that we lay our scene. California’s north has received a fine run of swell and a handful of hearty souls were out at Fort Point when one of them, a bodyboarder, smashed his head into a rock and became unconscious. Remember when we, as a group, used to make fun of bodyboarders? Silly that we didn’t recognize greatness. That bodyboarders are, generally, very brave and ply their trade out of pure weird desire.
In any case, the bodyboarder smashed his head and would have drowned if not for the quick action of two surfers, one of them an off-duty paramedic, who spotted the body, rushed over and began performing CPR while bringing him to shore where CPR continued before he was transported to a local trauma center.
The story was told, and told well, in the San Francisco Chronicle but there was some disbelief in the comment section where one reader declared, “A ‘good job’ to the rescuers. Technical point: It is unlikely that they were performing CPR while pulling the victim to shore, as chest compressions require that the victim be on a solid surface.”
Pretty rude to put “good job” in quotes, no?
Also haven’t the chest compression part of CPR gone out of vogue? Or was that the breathing in mouth part?
Is Pipe going to run today?
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Sad update here: https://www.sfgate.com/baya…
Re CPR – continuous compressions all the way folks, made an account just to post this. Don’t even worry about kiss / breathing into that dirty stranger / surfer’s std / Ludwig’s Angina riddled mouth, just keep on crushing their chest to the tune of 100 bpm.
Injured body boarder is Haruwn Wesley . Great guy and very experienced out there and at Ocean Beach. https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Get a few breaths in and then chest pump the shit out of it. Get that oxygen going around.
ummm – forgot to include foilers – or stand up paddle foilers. Running rampant here in the San Diego area.
SUP foilers are the fucken worst
Nice editing on that first line, Valley Girl. Professional, as usual
Snapper Rocks, Thursday: The WSL is expected to commence competition for the Quiksilver Pro today in excellent point break conditions, signifying the official start of the 2021 season.
‘We’re super stoked to be getting underway here on the beautiful Gold Coast in some pumping surf,’ said WSL CEO Keiren Perrow.
‘After a restless year and two weeks in mandatory quarantine all of the competitors – and support staff – are healthy, happy, ready to get to work.’
‘Of course it’s a shame to not be finishing the year in Hawaii but as early as June it was clear to see America was not managing its response to the virus and any competition we tried to run there was going to be impacted by it. It was a no brainer moving the schedule around to begin in Australia.’
‘Even somebody with the most basic understanding of this pandemic could see down under, with its near eradication of coronavirus and strict quarantine laws, was the right choice. Combine the fact that we are looking at one of the best cyclone seasons in recent memory and you’ve got a recipe for success / basic competency.’
‘We plan to run the Australian leg December through March before moving to an undisclosed location in the Pacific fora one off specialty event that will blow minds. From there we will take stock of the international situation regarding covid and vaccines before making a decision on the rest of the year.’
The tour is expected to be going ahead without veteran Kelly Slater, who was detained by customs officials after getting into an argument over his need to quarantine becausehe had just watched a three minute video a buddy of Joe Rogan had sent him, that pretty clearly showed this whole covid thing is a hoax, man.
Picturesqueness may be in the eye of the beholder, but northern NZ has many positively picturesque places packed per mile giving it a high bang for your buck ratio in the picturesque potentiality stakes…
sshhhh.
four days since their last comment on the WSL site. Insane incompetence.
Farcical. Maybe they’ve been using the Mobile Cone of Silence protocols.
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“does my breath smell”?
I always thought the most picturesque wave was the one with the train running through it. WHAT A SIGHT!
Saw some footage of the point from the last swell. Someone was trunking it! Klatt?
I expect a press release today confirming pipes cancelation. Too short a time window at this point to work with and we all know how strict Hawaii is with their licensing. Chicks will be canceled too. Not a great start to the season. If they are to continue the tour this year I expect this won’t be the only event shuddered half way through because of these types of complications.
Dual heat format, perhaps?
I want twelve man heats
No priority, switch foot
Finless and waxless
and all need to drink a resin bucket full of beer before EACH heat. A bit hard to fit all of that into a Haiku.
A resin bucket
Of beer to consume post heat
Between Rosie’s boobs
Rosie, Rosie, Ros
-ie, Rosie, Rosie, Rosie
Rosie, Rosie, Rose.
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God gave us Christmas
And soft boards rained from heaven
and it was not good
No Country will let them in with this circus, now with the faux Covid theater around them.