Bethany Hamilton writes: "HELP‼️ My precious nephew was medivaced to kapiolani in Oahu this morning after drowning last night."

Surf icon Bethany Hamilton pleads for help finding miracle doctor after nephew medivaced to Oahu following drowning episode

By Derek Rielly

6 months ago

“He still has a heartbeat and has fight in him. We are wrecked.”

Shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton, one of the toughest gals alive, has pleaded for help finding a “miracle” doctor after her nephew was medivaced from Maui to Oahu following a drowning episode yesterday.

In a post to her 2.4 million followers Hamilton wrote:

HELP‼️ My precious nephew was medivaced to kapiolani in Oahu this morning after drowning last night. He still has a heartbeat and has fight in him.
We are wrecked. But I know how proper medical support can make or break someone’s chance of survival and in this case we’re asking for help from anyone who has information of what we can do to give my nephew the best chance.

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It was quickly updated after a follower got Hamilton in touch with a world-renowned doctor famous for his work in hyperbaric medicine, and who is particularly noted for his case study involving a toddler who suffered brain damage due to drowning.

Update we got ahold of Dr Paul Harch help save my nephew and educate doctors in Hawai’i. @harch.hbot

PLEASE ONLY MESSAGE MY BROTHER if you have timely information on other treatments to look into @noahhamiltonphoto my brother Noah’s cell is +1 (808) 652-7667

Please pray. THANK YOU!

Doc Harch preaches Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) which involves the patient breathing pure oxygen in a pressurised chamber. This therapy aims to increase the amount of oxygen dissolved in the bloodstream, potentially aiding in the healing of various tissues, including brain tissue.

Following the treatment of the drowned toddler, there was reported to be a significant reversal of brain damage, as evidenced by MRI scans showing a “near-complete reversal” of brain atrophy. This case was highlighted for its potential implications on treating brain injuries, though it sparked skepticism and debate within the medical community.

That case, along with Dr. Harch’s advocacy for HBOT, has been both celebrated for pushing boundaries in medical treatment and criticized for potentially giving false hope or misleading claims about the capabilities of HBOT in reversing brain damage.

But, goddamn, what else are you gonna do? I learned real early on that without someone to advocate for you in hospital, you’re gonna end up on a cold slab real quick.

Here’s hoping for the kid.

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The victim. Photo: Fish and Wildlife

Orange County surfers put on detective hats after reward offered for fatally shot sea lion

By Chas Smith

6 months ago

"California sea lions are a conservation success because the population has rebounded from the days when they were shot for bounties.”

Now Orange County, California is known for many things including, but not limited to, burritos, freeways, open air malls though not generally intuitive thinking. All that is set to change, though, with the arrival of a fatally shot sea lion. The two-year-old li’l buddy washed up at Bolsa Chica, just north of Huntington with a bullet lodged in its back. It was rushed to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna but died there from its injuries.

While sea lions are everywhere, they are still protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act making it illegal to harass or kill them. Fines can soar to over $30,000 plus a year in jail.

Harsh.

Federal officials want to know, anyhow, who pulled the trigger in the above case and are offering a $20,000 reward for information.

Surfers, thus, swapping out foam baseball caps for detective-esque fedoras.

$20,000 can buy many things in Orange County including, but not limited to, burritos.

More as the story develops.

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I get a little OD, but ain't shit new to a freak Let me drop bands, put a jewel in ya teeth He love the way I drip, turn that pool to the beach

“Incredibly horny” rapper Doja Cat spotted surfing with man dubbed “Human Viagra” at Kelly Slater wave pool

By Derek Rielly

6 months ago

"You want a good girl that does bad things to you. You never been with no one as nasty as me…"

There are no words left in the English language to describe the joy Tahitian heart-throb Raimana Van Bastolaer brings to his retinue of celebrity clients who arrive at the Kelly Slater wave pool in a quest to get their first barrel.

Raimana will surf behind the beginner at the Kelly Slater pool, steadying them with his hands, issuing instructions, support, and as the wave moves onto the shallow part of the bank at Surf Ranch will compress their hips into the correct lowered stance before pin-dropping off the wave allowing the learner to enjoy a vision that used to be reserved for a wildly select few.

The supermodel Cindy Crawford, whose career peaked in 1987 when she appeared alongside the other OG supermods Christy Turlington, Linda Evangalista and Naomi Campbell on British Vogue, has previously described Raimana as “the Big Blue Pill. He can get anyone up! Even me!”

Recently, Ivanka Trump, the statuesque forty-two-year-old daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump (RIP), and whom you last saw on these pages when she savaged “violent, manipulating” windsurfers on a Lex Fridman podcast, fell under the spell of Raimana during a recent trip to the Kelly Slater Surf Ranch.

And, Ivanka and Cindy C ain’t alone in wanting a piece of Tahiti’s hottest.

Yesterday, Raimana deftly hoisted the LA singer Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini aka Doja Cat, into her first barrel, sacrificing himself to get his charge into a barrel that, however you slice it, is pretty legit and better than most of the duds the surf journalist gang got when I was there.

Doja Cat came onto my radar late in life, when she did that cute duet with Post Malone, I Like You (A Happier Song), hitting all buttons with the verse.

Let me know when you’re free
’Cause I been tryna hit it all week, babe
Why you actin’ all sweet?
I know that you want little ol’ me
I get a little OD, but ain’t shit new to a freak
Let me drop bands, put a jewel in ya teeth
He love the way I drip, turn that pool to the beach

Those lines, according to Genius Lyrics, emphasise Doja Cat is “incredibly horny and metaphorically overdoses on her sexual desires.”

Genius adds,

The rapper has laid claim to being a “freak” since the start of her career. On her 2018 track “Freak,” she sings about being a “freak” when it comes to her sexual preferences:

Freak like me
You want a good girl that does bad things to you
You never been with no one as nasty as me
Spice up your life, come get a freak

In February 2022, she released a collaboration with Tyga called “Freaky Deaky,” in which she once again discusses her sexual desires.

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Rio Waida (left) not at the beach. Photo: Instagram

Worry grows in Indonesia after nation’s most successful surfer discovers joys of alpine living

By Chas Smith

6 months ago

"Switzerland is the number 1 place I've ever seen..."

The ink on the freshly released ’25 World Surf League Championship Tour schedule is not yet dry and yet a proud surfing nation already finds itself very worried. Yes, Indonesia, which has long been a must-visit location for surfers, has produced its most successful one ever in Rio Waida. The universally adored spark plug is adept in all conditions, brave, and ended the ’24 season ranked 9th in the world.

Hopes and dreams of a possible title dancing in Batavian heads.

Except, as mentioned, worry is currently the pervading emotion for Waida, you see, has left the palm-fringed shores and is currently bathed in alpenglow.

The Olympics’ own organ published a feature, overnight, detailing how five-ringed surfers were spending their off time. Medina went to Bali, Billy Stairmand to the Maldives. Waida? He traveled to Switzerland and appeared to fall in love.

“The nature here in Switzerland is on another level, felt like I’m in the heaven and felt like I’m in the dream,” the twice-over Olympian wrote on Instagram. “It’s so beautiful, the most beautiful place I ever seen. I mean it’s hard to compare with ocean and beach but this place might be my number 1 place that I visited. The reason I came here is because I wanted to do something that I love to do, which is hiking, see the nature, see the beauty of this world, and be at somewhere there’s nobody and listen to the sound of the nature. And inhale beautiful fresh air and exhale all the bad stuff.”

Number 1 place ever seen?

A snowboarding future just over the Matterhornian peak?

David Lee Scales and I did not discuss Waida’s love of Switzerland, during our weekly chat, but did discuss the revamped tour and what it means. I think you’ll find it extremely informative.

Enjoy.

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“What ensues is an adventure turned survival story of epic and bloody proportions on a tropical island which once seemed to be paradise but is actually closer to hell.”

Kevin Costner set to recreate 1995 bomb Waterworld after inking deal for surf-horror film set in Bali

By Derek Rielly

6 months ago

“This is one of the best scripts I have seen in my career. Kevin is a legendary actor who brings so much depth and charisma…”

Almost thirty years after briefly sinking his career with the 1995 stinker Waterworld where he played a mutated human with gill-like structures and webbed feet, capable of surviving in the post-apocalyptic, water-covered Earth, Kevin Costner will have another swing at an oceanic epic next year with a surf horror film set in Bali.

Called Headhunters, the film will combine the “kinetic energy of surf culture with the suspense of horror.”

The almost seventy-year-old Kevin Costner, whom you last saw as the murderous patriarch John Dutton in the television series Yellowstone, plays Lazer, “a washed-up American ex-pat with a mysterious past who finds himself living in Bali, Indonesia. Lazer recruits a group of surfers led by Bima, a local photographer, on a journey to an uncharted island to pioneer a ‘perfect wave.’ To their surprise, the island is home to an ancient tribe of headhunters guarding the land at all costs.

“What ensues is an adventure turned survival story of epic and bloody proportions on a tropical island which once seemed to be paradise but is actually closer to hell.”

Kevin Costner has joined up with Scott Steindorff and his Stone Village Films to bring the Headhunters to life.

“For decades, my friend Kevin Costner and I have been searching for the right project to collaborate on,” Steindorff said. “This is one of the best scripts I have seen in my career. Kevin is a legendary actor who brings so much depth and charisma to his roles, and has written an iconic horror script with Steve.”

Sounds like it has a shot at the worst movie ever made, don’t it?

Or does that crown forever belong on the head of the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters?

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