Timely given BJ Penn’s similar near-death experience at a wavepool.
The Canary Islands-based big-wave bodysurfer Ahmed Erraji has snatched a harrowing Go Pro clip of his almost-drowning, which bears examining, I think, and which is timely given BJ Penn’s similar near-death experience at a wavepool.
Morrocan-born Erraji, who is forty-ish and swings by the nickname Hijo del Mar (son of the sea), ain’t afraid to swim out at thirty-foot Nazaré.
So he knows his chops.
In this short, we watch as Erraji is pushed by an eight-foot wave into a cave in the cliffs.
He don’t die, no plot spoiler there, but Erraji is trapped inside the cave for two-and-a-half hours, waves completely filling his little grotto, causing the viewer some anguish as he tries to imagine how he would react if jammed into a cliff, never knowing if you’d exit etc.
“Have you heard of the saying “Fear Kills”? That’s the exact job of fear,” Erraji told Wavelength magazine. “Fear tells you: ‘If you’re going to bodysurf that wave, you’ll never come back,’ but with time I learned that on the other side of your biggest fears, there are the best things of your life.”
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I pulled a dead scuba diver out of the water at Manly yesterday. Just off deadmans. Had 4 tanks and one of those underwater seadoo things. We had a hell time getting him up the reef.
Waddya mean by “these folks”? He’s what, late 20s or in his 30s and he’s a bodysurfer, according to his Insta. He’s making a living from bodysurfing ya reckon? Fuck me, half the cunts on the CT don’t have major sponsors, I think it’s a wee stretch to suggest this cunt’s making a living from bodysurfing and needs his Gopro every time he goes for a stroke…
Cool vid, amazing that after two and a half hours our man on the second camera caught the moment he bust outa the cave and into the air! That’s incredible and so believable.
How much money will this dude make while waiting for the tide to go out? Oh, give me YT ads as a source of endless prosperity.
God, that was proper shite, wasn’t it?
DR delivering, as usual.
Literally sleeping, yes!
Who ya snuggling?
Medina, Teahupoo, covid, and Fortnite all in one paragraph? Bravo!
Jeezus fucking bla bla bla. Do cunts these days film everything they do for 30 seconds of narcissistic adulation? Are cunts that hard up for self esteem and self respect they need to carry Gopros everywhere and create dodgy videos – replete with shit soundtracks – to get a bit of attention? Fuck me.
Cunt even calls himself the son of the sea. Who’s his daddy? A big sperm whale?
cunt of the sea.
If Hemingway was alive, surely his next book would be “The Old Cunt and the Sea” about a bodysurfer who gets stuck in the gaping jaws of a cave. Or maybe that’s Melville.
yeah I was just reading about how Jonah had a go-pro inside the whale but he’s holding out the footy for the doco…and music copyright issues apparently.
Haha Jonah, the modern day Ishmael. It’s all so poetically, prophetically pathetic.
Something rather odd about this.
Interesting the way that there’s what looks like multiple lightsources coming from various angles, including above, and the waves coming into the cave don’t look as bad (pretty mellow in fact) as the shots from outside the cave.
It appears to be a straightforward swim to exit the cave, or even climb out the hole up top that all the light (but no water) is coming in.
Like it’s done in different places at different times and poorly edited together.
The cave itself looks not too bad, as if he goes in their regularly to relax or find lobsters.
Very fishy indeed.
In short, surely a hoax.
P.S.
Just another ‘English as a second language’ type going for views and potential YouTube ad cash by the looks…
He ain’t gonna need no Thai rescue team, is that what you’re saying?
Yeah you’re not gonna be forced into a sea cave lined with jagged rocks without bleeding. He did some gnarly stuff to get this footage but the “story” he put together with that footage is probably fake.
Exactly. If you’ve ever been to the Canaries, you know how crazy sharp those volcanic rocks are over there
Wrong comments on this thread. Boudin is a radical with a capital R, and his policies are unleashing havoc on a once great city. Always the same with these far, far left progressives. I’m going surfing while your granny gets beaten on the BART and your car gets broken into for the 20th time. Let them eat cake and shit waves. Fuck that guy.
Should’ve brought his violin, would’ve passed the time a bit quicker in the cave. Or is that a different guy? Similar vibe.
He has no reason to really, he might as well go straight to San Clemente and practice at lowers after the black lung pro. I wonder if a positive covid test would keep you out of the finals.
This is bullshit!
I was out at the Cove years ago when ‘ol boy got washed up into the “cave”.
However, I don’t believe this story. If he had a gopro on, needs to show the whole footage. This looks very staged.
Heh, Son of the Sea. [puke]
Cove and cave. I would think this is a veiled attempt at not naming Honolua but something tells me you are not from da aina.
La Jolla Cove. My bad.
At least the last part must be staged or reenacted. No way the filmer is still on the cliffs to capture the heroic return after his buddy has disappeared in a cave for 2 hours
No way I can watch this. I was having fun one day during a flat spell at Lagundri swimming through the holes in the reef out front. Well I took a wrong turn didn’t I. A surge dragged me into a tight nook and I began to furiously scratch at walls. Knowing I was dead if I kept that up I closed my eyes as my swimming goggles filled with water and let my heart slow down. Once beating every two seconds I slowly reopened my blurry peepers and began a torturously tight and claustrophobic journey to the next room. And then the next. I saw light in the distance but I was terribly gassed, actually hearing my friends above me panicking did not help. It blew my mind at how deep I had managed to get but there was light in the overhangs and cracks. I just slowly made my way there. The last part was vague and I came to with an Irishman leaning in and grabbing at my flailing head. That was enough to jolt me into awareness. I actually was at the ocean side of the reef by then and I’d travelled a long way, not as the crow flies either. Anyway, that was the third time I nearly drowned in a fortnight. The first part of drowning is a harrowing experience of dodging the reaper that you invited in, the giving up and sleeping part at the end is a relief and quite beautiful.
Curious, where are these deadly holes at Lagundri? Unless you are talking about the Keyhole area, I don’t recall any caves or holes in the reef at the right. Enlighten me sensei. Spent quite a bit of time there and never heard anyone mention caves or holes.
Straight out the front of Oikodo losmen. Only nooks and crannies from the shallow end, opens up big underneath. Pre tsunami if that helps. Haven’t seen it post.
Apparently it’s easier to swim without holding a GoPro.
Definitely a guy grabbing his hand luggage exiting a crashed bird.