Dramatic!
The entire surf community, or at least the northeastern U.S. surf community, was praised, yesterday, by Marshfield, Massachusetts harbormaster Mike Dimeo who, along with his crew, performed a daring evening rescue at the beginning of January.
“Surfing’s a big thing in Marshfield,” he told the local Boston news, “and this is the first surfer call we had in 13 years since I’ve been harbormaster.”
And imagine that. The first surfer rescue in 13 years. A fine run, something we should all be proud of even if we aren’t from the northeastern U.S.
In any case, two surfers became troubled in 10 – 12 foot swell and Dimeo had to scramble his forces.
“They did a good job of staying together, treading water,” he continued. “It was my job to hold the boat steady and get down close as I could. The seas were a bit challenging as you can see (below). I was unable to get between them and the beach because of the waves that were breaking, the surf. You kinda want to avoid the breaking waves so I couldn’t get that much closer to them.”
He said the 10 and 12 foot waves were so high that he could not even see the stranded surfers.
“All we had was the fire department’s red lights and blue lights on the beach, so we knew we were in the right vicinity. That’s kind of the tricky part.”
After ten minutes of searching, they found the two hearty souls and pulled them to safety.
“I’m very thankful for the equipment that we have cause it makes your job easier. Had it been years past with subpar equipment that we used to have those things are not happening.”
A wonderfully happy ending. A feather in all our surf caps.
But did you know that I attended Marshfield High School in Coos Bay, Oregon?
Surfing was not a big thing there but Steve Prefontaine was. He had attended the same Marshfield High School a handful of years prior and I thought he was some lame hometown hero and couldn’t understand the hullabaloo over him until two Prefontaine movies were released, one starring Billy Crudup, the other Jared Leto, then I realized he was actually famous not just Coos Bay famous.
A real revelation.
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Fucking UMass. I’d rather be lost at sea than rescued by a harbormaster. The music made me want to take up karate however.
That doesn’t have very much Spam in it.
We’re going to need a bigger boat. Signed Quint
I would quit surfing if I were them. That’s embarrassing
They call them shaaaaks over there.
shoulda stayed in the hahbah
Do these fs have to reimburse the taxpayers of this community? Do not celebrate these pansies for their inconsiderate lame bumbling in a moderate surf. I’m sick of half azz thrill seekers causing trouble for rescuers, eating up taxrevenue for their punk behaviors. Internet, please screen out these irrelevant “news” stories
Surfers? Where are/what happened to their flotation devices/surfboards?
There ya go.
Now put it on tiktok with 20-part crowdsourced harmony.
This definitely call for a Great Lakes sea shanty.
Is there a Post-Fontaine movie as well?
HA !
That’s not even 2 Jason Stathoms…
I would surf Marshfield when I lived in Ma.
Secret is out.
You can have shit, freezing cold waves all to yourself when it gets big.
(if it was)
Its 5 foot Californian, 1 foot Hawaiian?
Media hype as usual
Hey, Boston buoy has been reporting 15-25′ swell for the last two days. Like usual it’s also blown out as fuck and nobody with any sense is out, but I was going to say this pair was at least hard-charging until I realized this all happened a month ago.
I went and found a local writeup and apparently they lost one board and broke the other one, which is only more WTF.
Have 2 names in my head I was hoping to read.
We all saw what 6 foot Hatteras Island did too Koa. Your Wilbur scale does not account for the surge of water draining from inside of the sandbar. All nice and peaceful with your dry hair reef paddle outs. Not so on the east coast with water temps below 40F.
Uh… About this time Mavericks is jumping at 35-50ft in 50deg water… One, you can’t paddle into those, and two, I would rather get smashed into a sand bar than have tons of water trash you into sharp rocks several times, keeping you down… Oh and the Great Whites in the triangle, can clear a lineup quick…
They haves ams shames us.
its freezing, fuck that
Mass-a-shoots-it ain’t 10-12ft.
Believe me, the line up clears out at 10-12.
Guys don’t have enough experience.
Nice Top Gun sound track, I guess head high is ten to twelve feet in Massachusetts. They all deserve a wicked bowl of chowda and a Samuel Adams.
Sam Adams brewery was at the end of my street.
On Fridays they would have tours. Bring in hot college girls to serve free beer and nibbles for an hour with a small a donation for troubled youths that you could throw in a tub. Or not.
Bit strange, throwing troubled youths in a tub. Whatever floats your youth.
Get the tub hot and throw the drunk girls in
I either read and write this crap at 4am before work, or with a good buzz on at night. Pay no attention to me.
Negative ghost rider, the pattern is full.
Highway to the danger zone
10-12 foot Massachusetts seems like it was a bit much for the boys they should stick to 4-6 foot Massachusetts until they get more comfortable