Feel good.
I had a wonderful dream last night that I had written something trite and not very funny on BeachGrit and Surfline’s Nick Carroll wrote me a letter to be better so I published the letter and the original trite not very funny piece became relevant and hilarious thanks to him.
Alas, when I woke there was no letter saving my work.
In other news, a seventy-one year old man, Dennis Kane, was in North Carolina, over the weekend, to spread the ashes of his daughter out at sea with family. Apparently, the urn did not sink properly and Kane went after it to make sure things were done the right way but became stuck in a rip current and began to drown.
As miracles would have it, Adam Zboyovski happened to be on the beach picking up chairs for his beach chair rental business, saw the scene unfolding, grabbed his surfboard and paddled into action.
“I just happen to always have a board close by. This one was tough because the ocean conditions were really bad and I couldn’t read the ocean like on an average day. Also, the board had no wax at all on it so I was slipping off just paddling out,” he told news agency InsideNoVa.
Once reaching Kane, he noticed he was exhausted and struggling but was able to paddle him back to shore where first aid was administered before a trip to the hospital.
Later that night, Zboyovski stopped by the home where Kane’s family was staying so they could thank him.
“I think the most touching part about it when I met his granddaughter and she was thanking me because…being a young child, watching their grandfather drown would just be the most horrible thing,” he said.
His daughter, Shannon Kane Smith later took to Facebook where she wrote, “Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they have surfboards.”
Take that, Nick Carroll.
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Another Coffey falls to the dark side becoming a modern age cam girl. Pray for Mitch
I always have a board close by too, but mine’s one of those little keyring ones. Not only would it not have enough floatation for rescuing purposes, its not waxed either! Mr Kane would have been fucked.
I have a surfboard shaped USB but not sure that would be much help either
Let’s people at work know that you are a true waterman.
Great conversation starter
The Big Zboyovski.
maybe it happened on a Cape? Real “Feel Good” story minus the unwaxed board part. Fuckin nightmare scenario there.
All I can focus on about this whole tragic story. A surfer actually paddling on a board with no wax……THE HORROR!