Near-Death/Injury experiences?

omg

did you die?

 

Almost drown at KOA in Rodanthe back in 90's - 8 ft evening sesh with just me and my buddy, no lulls, paddled out only to get hammered, my leash wrapped 3x around my legs and dragged down the beach with a sideshore current in the deep water trench a few yards off the beach, taking wave after wave on the head. Honestly thought I was gonna black out and drown and started to accept my fate. That's when i felt sand with my toe and managed to get to the beach only to vomit and have a bit of a cry. (let the name calling begin). My buddy knew nothing about it and simply asked why I was such a pzzy for sitting on the beach lol

Second one was in PR - 1st night there all amped up and decided to walk down a path to try to see the ocean in pitch black. overgrowth got too thick and we couldn't see so we went back to the room. The next morning we retraced our steps and realized we were literally 3 steps away from walking off a 50 ft cliff.

 

I was on vacation a couple weeks ago, wasn't around here that much, started to sweat and get the shakes.


Never really thought my life was ever in peril. Got tangled up in some trawl lines while setting lobster gear, but you move quick when that happens. Saw a skydiver plummet to his death once, poor guy.

 

Speaking of plummeting to your death, when I was a kid we got out of the water at 14th St. pier in VB to walk to the McDonalds there. Huge thud where you felt the ground shake. Look over and about 25 yards away from us was a 30-something chick who had jumped from the 7th story balcony - just lying there with a blank stare dead. Um, didn't eat lunch that day.

 

WHAT? WHAT DID HE SAY??? (volume switch) …….oh.

why sure , whipper-snapper, i have a story.


(What were we talking about!!!??)


OH RIGHT. A STORY (big poke on geritol bottle).

goes like dis. one side pumping southern-hemi swell, me in the middle, and sheer cliffs on the other side.
bash. bash. bash went i. over and over. hurts just thinking about it. smash. eeks. smash again.
somehow i made it. and i lived.

WHAT WERE
WE TALKING ABOUT??? i need a nap.

zzzzzzzzzz……...

 

Ooooh, probly ruin my appetite too. This skydiver thing was weird...I was driving back from PA w/ my Dad, in the mountains, and there were three skydivers cruising down, chutes opened up, on what appeared to be the mellow part of the ride. This one dude's chute starts ruffling around the edges, and next thing ya know, he's spinning in circles, sideways, totally free-falling. He passed the other two guys going full speed, and just disappeared behind a mountain. I guess he hit an updraft or something? I always thought once the chute's open you're good to go, but apparently not.

 

My friend Sam and I were teaching this girl to surf out on sunset cliffs. Long paddle out, a few hundred yards. Foggy morning, the genius girl was floating outside of me a couple of feet. A wave came, and we were all in position to just let it go under us. I was looking in at the beach, she bailed on a 8 foot funshape at it clocked me right in the back of the head. I didn't see it coming. I slid off my board but was okay once the water hit my face, but I was nearly knocked out, and that far out at sea, with waves around, I would hope that one of them would have helped a brother out and got me in alive..... Wish I had a better, cooler story, but it's dumb sh** like that will get you in the end. That poor kid that is friends with Tyler Steel and Rob Machaco, the x-pro surfer that got paralyzed, he was in a barrel on a 3 foot day he said, a professional surfer, next thing you know he could never walk again.

Had the near drowning thing a few times. Always scariest in Huge mexican beach break, when your board and leash both snap and the current takes you about a mile north, out to see, after you had paddled out into surf that was about twice as big as it looked from the cliffs, only to pull into a giant closeout tube, do your normal kick through the back as it detonates, then you get that leash snapping, board buckling impact that you can feel under water and then the naked feeling of a ripped leash, with nothing on the other end.... Fun fun fun... Didn't die, but my crying wife thought I was dead for about 15 minutes.

 

Came this effin' close to dying when I got the final bill from my divorce lawyer.

 

Hahaha glad you made it through amigo.

 

crack me up. idk but bet it was worth it…..

 

Gracias senor......never again! Signing that piece of paper means only one thing: giving up 50%, or more, of everything I've ever worked for when the time comes for the split.

 

Someone get the depends, the old man is having a rough afternoon.

 

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Oh hell yeah. Still paying it off 8 yrs later....but so worth it to remove a narcissistic, lying, selfish, critical, hypocritical, pill-hooked witch from my life. And even with the continuing hit to my bottom line, I'm doing far better than if that thing were still leeching offa me.

Behind every gorgeous woman (which she still is) there's a man who's tired of fukkking her (which I was).

 

Don't know if you're serious or effing around, but I'll just say this to you, junior: don't get married, just maintain the long-term gig & if she pushes hard for the ring, cut it right then & there.

A ring doesn't plug a hole. Remember that, kid.

 

Listen to this man. I had a longterm gf of 8 years...she was beautiful, everything was great, we were planning on spending our lives together and she didn't even pressure me for marriage. Well, sh!t went south quick, and I had a hard enough time getting her out of the house w/out the legal contract. I'd be living with my parents now probly if we were married.

One thing I'd add to yankee's caveat is always have a little savings set aside for yourself, married or not.

 

In CASH. I repeat, CASH. Buried. Away from the tax man and bank.

or precious metals.

 

Had a .45 put to my head once, been shot at w\ a shotgun (hit the tree over my head), fell solo rock climbing on Grandfather mtn and went through a tree, and been at the epicenter of a small scale race riot. (Me and my bro got jumped by a bunch black dudes walking down a street, we fought back, then the KFC, McDonalds, and every fast food joint around emptied and they joined in the fun). Had lots of other close calls but those would prob be the closest I came to getting off'd. Other than some nasty wipeouts incl the faceplant/scorpion into a sandbar but nothing in the ocean that came as close as any of those...yet. Although crossing the shoals at Cape Lookout in a driving storm coming back from Hatteras was pretty f'ing hairy. 24ft deep vee fishing boat got airborne twice. First time when we landed in the trough the prop hit sand and bogged for a sec, thought it was gonna cut out, and we had another big one coming at us. Got water and took off at the last second and we shot over the next one and that was the worst of it. Nothing I'm sure compared to what guys like Seldom have Seen out there making a livin'. Much respect to those guys.