Forget sharks, this is how you’re really likely to be hurt surfing. | SURFLINE.COM
Forget sharks, this is how you’re really likely to be hurt surfing. | SURFLINE.COM
One day a few years back, San Diego lifeguard Chad Cox was surfing a knee-high day in La Jolla’s clear waters. Zipping along an inside section, he could easily see the sandy bottom. But when the wave jacked up and closed out over a section of sandbar, Cox was flipped off headfirst so fast that he didn’t even have time to get his hands up. Cox instantly realized that the clarity of the water had made the water look deeper than it actually was. His head hit the bottom first.
“I felt my whole body go numb,” he says.
