Heroic New Jersey surfers break from surf contest to save drowning fishermen

"The incident made all the more impressive due the fact that surfers and fisherpeople are oft enemies."

New Jersey has nothing left to prove itself as the best surfing state in the contiguous 48. A coastal strip of such heartiness and heroics as to deeply shame the lily-livers of Florida and California. But tough don’t take a day off and, therefore, let us travel to Avalon Beach in South Jersey wherein we meet the Cape May County Boardriders.

The fellas were in the water for the yearly “Battle at the Jetty” surf contest when disaster struck. A rogue wave, you see, caught two fishermans there on the aforementioned breakwater unawares and swept them right into the boil.

Thinking nothing of priority interference or “sliding into the excellent range,” the champions broke straight away and paddled over to save the day. Amongst them was an 18-year-old nursing student named Cooper Lysinger. Thinking nothing of his own safety, the young man used his board to float one of trawlers to the comforts of shore.

“It reinforces the fact that I want to be a nurse and just go and help people,” Lysinger said afterward and will no doubt be soon flooded with marriage offers from eligible bachelorettes from around the nation.

Witnesses declared that the fishermen needed no medical attention once upon the sand and were able to appropriately thank the white knights for their assistance.

The incident made all the more impressive due the fact that surfers and anglers are oft enemies. I, for one, feel an internal boil at those who stand on the shore and cast their evil hooks into the sea at beaches that have fine enough waves in Southern California. What are they hoping to catch? Stingrays? I can’t say that I would magnanimous if one of them lost footing and became dragged out to sea.

Do you think lesser of me, now?

Sorry.