"As soon as the incident occurred, we immediately closed the park and are continuing to provide our full cooperation to the first responders and police."
A man in his forties is fighting for his life after suffering a “medical episode” while surfing at Melbourne’s Urbnsurf, Australia’s only commercially operating wavepool.
Paramedics were called at around 11:30 and the pool closed.
The man has been taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital and is in a critical condition.
Per Urbnsurf’s statement to press,
There has been a serious incident at URBNSURF Melbourne, our team has provided support and care for the friends on site. Our first priority is the health and safety of our customers.
As soon as the incident occurred, we immediately closed the park and are continuing to provide our full cooperation to the first responders and police.
The facility will remain closed until further notice. As a police investigation is under way, we are unable to provide any further comment.
More as the story develops.
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You didn’t chime into the FB comments during the week re SL forecasts?
“The wave breaks here…..don’t be there.”
One Ocean.
I tried to google more information about this and I got a bunch of fake youtube videos with titles claiming to show the accident.
rickrolled
Here is the weirdest one that I clicked on
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I saw these too, pretty soon after it happened. Odd
Man was consumed with regret after mechanized surfing experience?
Fuckin technical little double up. I wanna push Jonah and Minnie into one of those
Sharks 😔
this random heart attack of a 40 year old is definitely not related to the Safe and Effective™ vaxxes
Being in the control group of the trial is a big risk but im happy to do my bit.
18% of heart attacks occur in men under 50. 97.6% between the ages of 40 and 49.
Your diet choices have far more impact on your risk of heart attack then a vaccination, but I guess it’s easier to rail against a “shot” then it is to put that bloomin onion down
Seems like your sarcastically implying they are related.. and that’s an embarrassing statement.
Get off the conspiracy sites. They leave rubbish in your brain.
Surely not Party Pete!!
Hypothermia?
Vaxx complications ?
Can rule put hypothermia, it was actually warm here today with a few showers.
I think we hit 13?
He said he was going there but he packed his 3/2 instead of his 4/3.
There are plenty here still in a 3/2.
Not me.
And that’s why we can’t have nice things
Head injury?
Or spinal. Unless a fin sliced an artery. I’m thinking spinal via getting slammed.
They are saying both head injury and heart attack (in the same article). Word will get out pretty quick on the grapevine as to what happened.