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Dramatic rescue of surfer in 16' waves San Diego Winter Storm 1/7/2023

Postby a99 » Tue Jan 17, 2023 1:51 pm


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Re: Dramatic rescue of surfer in 16' waves San Diego Winter Storm 1/7/2023

Postby Toby » Tue Jan 17, 2023 2:16 pm

Great spot to surf!
It’s like launching a kite in onshore winds in front of obstacles…asking for problems.

And they need a big surf tow in jetski driver…they come in hot, get surfer on board and the hell out of it.

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Re: Dramatic rescue of surfer in 16' waves San Diego Winter Storm 1/7/2023

Postby JakeFarley » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:30 pm

I recall that some lifeguards are using drones to drop flotation devices to swimmers in peril. The article below is from 2018 in Australia. It's a whole lot quicker and can save lives. Should be standard equipment for lifeguards where surf is heavy and access is limited.

https://newatlas.com/little-ripper-dron ... lia/53045/

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Re: Dramatic rescue of surfer in 16' waves San Diego Winter Storm 1/7/2023

Postby Toby » Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:36 pm

yeah, good idea!

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Re: Dramatic rescue of surfer in 16' waves San Diego Winter Storm 1/7/2023

Postby andylc » Tue Jan 17, 2023 6:14 pm

Should be titled ‘half of a dramatic surf rescue’…
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Re: Dramatic rescue of surfer in 16' waves San Diego Winter Storm 1/7/2023

Postby irwe » Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:14 am

Interesting post. Would like to know the final reacue strategy. Go out past breaking waves?, Go side shore until a safer exit point. The 2 nd Lifeguard did not look like as strong a Swimmer as the first Lifeguard. Why put 2 Lifeguards in when JetSki support was also coming? Always something to learn from other peoples mistakes

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Re: Dramatic rescue of surfer in 16' waves San Diego Winter Storm 1/7/2023

Postby andylc » Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:41 am

Also curious as to the whole story - assume tow to side away from strong shore break. As per above why send in two lifeguards when the jet ski could get there quicker and more safely.

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Re: Dramatic rescue of surfer in 16' waves San Diego Winter Storm 1/7/2023

Postby edt » Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:09 pm

This is one of those rescues where everyone is having a good time.Everyone was excellent at swimming and in no trouble. As for why send in two more swimmers why not. If they had a helicopter they would have sent that too.

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Re: Dramatic rescue of surfer in 16' waves San Diego Winter Storm 1/7/2023

Postby Slappysan » Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:29 pm

andylc wrote:
Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:41 am
As per above why send in two lifeguards
Probably for experience, these guys don't get to perform rescues like this all that often so it's nice to get both guys some experience in a real world rescue scenario.
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Re: Dramatic rescue of surfer in 16' waves San Diego Winter Storm 1/7/2023

Postby Smeagle » Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:13 am

Hmm, I don't see a rescue in that video? Several guys swimming. One JetSki riding around them. No drama, or did I miss something?


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