No heats today nor tomoz maybe.
The finals of the women’s Maui Pro have been put on hold and the event may be cancelled after a recreational surfer was hit by a shark twenty yards offshore at Honolua Bay this morning.
The man, who was quickly reached by The Maui Pro’s water safety crews, suffered injuries to his left side lower extremities.
The water safety crews performed CPR on the man on the beach.
In a piece to camera from Oahu, the WSL’s CEO Erik Logan called the attack an “incident” adding the WSL’s “thoughts and prayers” are with the “victim” and that the event may be cancelled, which would make it the third WSL event to be called off because of shark attack, following Jeffrey’s Bay in 2015 and Margaret River in 2018.
There have been four fatal attacks in Maui in the last twenty years, 2004, 2013, 2015 and 2019. All hits by Tigers.
A week-and-a-half ago, a Californian woman suffered severe trauma injuries to her front torso after a hit while swimming in front of the Mahina Surf condos on Maui’s Lahaina coast.
Hawaii’s most famous shark attack was in 2003 when teenage surfer Bethany Hamilton was rolled by a fourteen-foot Tiger shark at Tunnels in Kauai, severing her left arm just below the shoulder.
There will be no competition at the Maui Pro today following a shark incident involving a recreational surfer this morning at Honolua Bay. The WSL is working with authorities and our thoughts are with the victim of this incident. The Maui Pro is on hold until further notice. pic.twitter.com/AGZSkF7wKZ
— World Surf League (@wsl) December 8, 2020
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Does Elo also have a gold/brass bangle around his cock?
I think all WSL workers, guests, and competitors should.
“Do you have a pass sir?”
“Why, yes, yes I do”.
Finish the womens comp at Pipe!!
Dear Derek,
Can we please hear more of that sweet sweet Antiguan accent?
Yah mon
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Wildlife Asymmetric Movement …. Ryan Burch has created a monster ?
Send Tyler Wright out on a kneeboard to test the waters.
Maybe just ‘pro-surfing’.
The phrase ‘Thoughts and prayers’ needs to be banned.
If you think and pray about it enough it might happen.
“Pascal’s wager is an argument in philosophy presented by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, theologian, mathematician and physicist, Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). It posits that humans bet with their lives that God either exists or does not.”
Only one rational choice. Bonne chance.
“ To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”
Hamlet
I like to go double thoughts. No prayers
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Everyone has been giving Chas shit but he was a year ahead of everyone else, whistleblowing on incoming sharkpocalypse.
By design, sharkitecture if you will.
Production Value. – Purdy dadgum good *whypout nanana-nananananaaaa
Elephant in the room or in this case line up. menstruation? can the WSL get laird’s take on this or possibly a Koa unboxing?
Elo looks like shit, must be all the stress and broken promises. Think he is trying to get his OWN job back yet?
Yeah he looks like he’s been up all night fighting Zombies or something.
Spooked after discovering he’s been SUPping in an ocean full of sharks.
It’s called Makahiki , plenty sharks feeding with all the fresh water washing out of the river mouths.
His nips are perky tho’
Sharks clearly hate pro surfing
The new yellow ( jersey ) is WHITE ….. or TiGER
Sharks will recreate you.
Sharks are your re-creation
Purveyors of Structual Deformation .
Chas is sending thoughts & prayers to the shark…
No one can say chas didn’t try and warn them
They’ll just have to shake that one off and reset