Reports coming in on the web that AI died on the way back to HawaiiWorld champion surfer Andy Irons dies at 32
Posted: Nov 03, 2010 9:17 AM
Updated: Nov 03, 2010 9:17 AM
Connect with us!
Sign up for email alerts...
Follow us on Twitter...
Send us photos & video
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Tragic news for surf fans around the world. Three-time World Champion surfer Andy Irons passed away.
According to Surfer Magazine, Irons had recently flown from Portugal to Puerto Rico to compete in a surf contest.
Sources say Irons fell ill and did not compete.
At this time, the cause of death is unknown.
Sources say he may have died from Dengue Fever.
We'll bring you more information on this story as it becomes available.
Copyright Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.
Andy Irons Dies
Moderators: jimmy, collnarra, PeepeelaPew, Butts, beach_defender, Shari, Forum Moderators
Andy Irons Dies
Al this is gold. "She didn't realise I was fairly high and spent much of the evening trying to figure out why a purple and orange cow wanted me to climb a tree."
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Just heard on the radio...I'm shocked.
Re: Andy Irons Dies
That really sucks - hope his family and loved ones are ok!
The surfing world has lost one of its finest
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Damn! 
Great loss to surfing.
Great loss to surfing.
All these drawings about dinosaurs… Why can’t we have photos?
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Shit rip AI
just received a text message about it and couldn't believe it.
just received a text message about it and couldn't believe it.
Oscar Wilde - "I am not young enough to know everything"
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Just been sent an sms saying that he died from Dengue Fever last night
RIP mate
RIP mate
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Checked into a hotel??saltman wrote:That is terrible news - he reportedly was to ill to make the connecting flight thru Dallas so checked into a Hotel and died!
Why not hospital?!
Really sad news
-
longyfreshy
- Grommet
- Posts: 94
- Joined: Wed May 03, 2006 10:43 am
Re: Andy Irons Dies
This is shocking news! So young!
I feel for his family and friends and a great loss to the surfing community.
Very Very sad.
I feel for his family and friends and a great loss to the surfing community.
Very Very sad.
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Unbelievable.....
What a loss. Incredible Athlete and competitor!
inspired a new generation of surfers...
RIP A.I
What a loss. Incredible Athlete and competitor!
inspired a new generation of surfers...
RIP A.I
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Fark
It's possible to hate the filthy world and still love it with an abstract pitying lovesome cnut wrote:There are only two real problems that we face in life, knowing what we want but being unable to know how to get it and/or not knowing what we want
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Terrible, terrible, aweful news!
Very sad and a HUGE loss for his family and surfing. Isn't his wife pregnant??? I'm shocked.
My thoughts are with his family.
Very sad and a HUGE loss for his family and surfing. Isn't his wife pregnant??? I'm shocked.
My thoughts are with his family.
Last edited by BDL77 on Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:51 am, edited 2 times in total.
“I am getting wealthy in ways that don’t count at the bank”
- Gerry Lopez
- Gerry Lopez
Re: Andy Irons Dies
offshore1 wrote:^^^I don't think anyone really cares [about boogie boarders] anymore Dae.
\none left on the forum.
-
oldman
- Snowy McAllister
- Posts: 6886
- Joined: Tue Feb 10, 2004 1:11 pm
- Location: Probably Maroubra, goddammit!
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Haysus!
That's just shocked me to the core, as has so much that has been happening this week.
That is just weird, unfathomable, all those things.
Best to family.
Man, it the reaper can take someone like him, the rest of us aren't long for it.
That's just shocked me to the core, as has so much that has been happening this week.
That is just weird, unfathomable, all those things.
Best to family.
Man, it the reaper can take someone like him, the rest of us aren't long for it.
Lucky Al wrote:You could call your elbows borogoves, and your knees bandersnatches, and go whiffling through the tulgey woods north of narrabeen, burbling as you came.
Re: Andy Irons Dies
What the hell? Thats absolutely tragic! 
------------
BA (on Realsurf) wrote: It's the wild west with a bit more homo-eroticism.
Re: Andy Irons Dies
see you blue horizon
Re: Andy Irons Dies
His poor wife and unborn child. Does anyone know where abouts he caught dengue fever?
------------
BA (on Realsurf) wrote: It's the wild west with a bit more homo-eroticism.
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Risking it all in huge waves and finishing up like Mark Foo and others? Yes.
To be struck down by a disease? No - very hard to fathom.
It puts a damper on yesterday's happiness following Stephanie Gilmore's world crown victory.
Surfer Andy Irons dead Georgina Robinson
November 3, 2010 - 10:35AM
Comments 21
Andy Irons .. died on his way home from a surfing event. Photo: Getty Images
Three-time surfing world champion Andy Irons has died on his way back home from an ASP surfing event in Puerto Rico.
The Association of Surfing Professionals confirmed the 32-year-old's death.
"He had reportedly been battling with dengue fever, a viral disease," the ASP said in a statement.
Advertisement: Story continues below Irons leaves behind his heavily pregnant wife Lyndie Dupuis.
"At this time the family thanks his friends and fans for their support and asks that the community respect its privacy," the ASP said.
Irons missed his heats at the Rip Curl Pro event in Puerto Rico due to illness over the weekend.
He was on his way home to Hawaii when he died.
Billabong spokesman Andrew Flitton told Australia's Surfing Life that Irons first flew from Puerto Rico to Miami, where he spent two days on an IV drip.
He then insisted on heading home to see his own doctor, but became sick and missed a connecting flight to Hawaii from Dallas, Texas, Australia's Surfing Life reported.
He checked into a Dallas hotel to rest. Hotel staff found Irons dead the next morning.
Irons clinched 19 world tour victories and was crowned world champion three times, in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
His most recent tour victory was in September, when he clinched victory in the Billabong Pro in Tahiti.
He withdrew from the ASP tour in 2009 citing personal reasons, but was granted a wildcard for the 2010 tour
Irons married Dupuis in 2007.
To be struck down by a disease? No - very hard to fathom.
It puts a damper on yesterday's happiness following Stephanie Gilmore's world crown victory.
Surfer Andy Irons dead Georgina Robinson
November 3, 2010 - 10:35AM
Comments 21
Andy Irons .. died on his way home from a surfing event. Photo: Getty Images
Three-time surfing world champion Andy Irons has died on his way back home from an ASP surfing event in Puerto Rico.
The Association of Surfing Professionals confirmed the 32-year-old's death.
"He had reportedly been battling with dengue fever, a viral disease," the ASP said in a statement.
Advertisement: Story continues below Irons leaves behind his heavily pregnant wife Lyndie Dupuis.
"At this time the family thanks his friends and fans for their support and asks that the community respect its privacy," the ASP said.
Irons missed his heats at the Rip Curl Pro event in Puerto Rico due to illness over the weekend.
He was on his way home to Hawaii when he died.
Billabong spokesman Andrew Flitton told Australia's Surfing Life that Irons first flew from Puerto Rico to Miami, where he spent two days on an IV drip.
He then insisted on heading home to see his own doctor, but became sick and missed a connecting flight to Hawaii from Dallas, Texas, Australia's Surfing Life reported.
He checked into a Dallas hotel to rest. Hotel staff found Irons dead the next morning.
Irons clinched 19 world tour victories and was crowned world champion three times, in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
His most recent tour victory was in September, when he clinched victory in the Billabong Pro in Tahiti.
He withdrew from the ASP tour in 2009 citing personal reasons, but was granted a wildcard for the 2010 tour
Irons married Dupuis in 2007.
Re: Andy Irons Dies
Both Tahiti and Puerto Rico would have the conditions that allow mosquitoes to spread dengue fever.
However, based on Dae's attached article death is a rare outcome.
AI's death is like Steve Irwin's in that they both survived the big risks only to be finished off by unexpected and relatively innocuous things. Life and death is unpredictable.
However, based on Dae's attached article death is a rare outcome.
AI's death is like Steve Irwin's in that they both survived the big risks only to be finished off by unexpected and relatively innocuous things. Life and death is unpredictable.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 96 guests