Storm swells claim surfer

Post by **insomniac** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:17 pm

yanks r us wrote:
smnmntl wrote:
elmo wrote:whats been happening lately everyone is dying
146,000 people per day apparently. Which breaks down to about 1.7 people per second. Shit, there goes another one. It's a corpse fest out there.

On the bright side, though: there are roughly 250 beautiful bouncing babies born worldwide every minute. Which is just over 4 per second. All that milky chuckling innocence.

On that ratio, I'd say the glass is just over two thirds full. Which means that for every Brocky and Steve Irwin who carks it, there's going to be at least two new babies coming into the world who might actually do something useful instead of driving fking race cars & molesting wild animals
mate id like to see you post that sh** whilst telling everyone your name and your address

don't feed the troll

Post by **bookster** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:04 pm

Sorry to hear about your mate muz.... it's a pity your first posts to the forum weren't under better circumstances.

Post by **incontrol** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:05 pm

tortoise wrote:
incontrol wrote:funny, I was out there at that time yesterday, or maybe i just got out of the water. I did not notice anything. Pretty heavy shorebreak running yesterday. Noticed alot of broken boards, leashes and fins floating around. My guess is he got a pounding in it and failed to resurface.
Funny

theres nothing funny about it

dude can you read? do you honestly think that im talking about someones death as funny?

i heard from a friend that he was told not to surf because he had epilepsy, and this was not the first time something like this had happened.

it was pretty heavy that day. I would be surprised if his fit was not triggered by a bit of a beating. we had a kid at school once and if someone grabbed his tie and pulled it he would have a fit. Pretty scary stuff.

Post by **fruitbowls** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 6:25 pm

so did you pull it lots, incontrol?

Post by **muz2035** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:46 pm

funny, I was out i heard from a friend that he was told not to surf because he had epilepsy, and this was not the first time something like this had happened.

it was pretty heavy that day. I would be surprised if his fit was not triggered by a bit of a beating. we had a kid at school once and if someone grabbed his tie and pulled it he would have a fit. Pretty scary stuff.

He was probably advised by doctors etc.....but he loved it, and was always itching to get out there for a wave....specially when it had sum size to it.

We were all worried about him surfing but in the end if we told him not to surf while we got out there he wouldnt have listened.

he was having seizures more often and after he would have one he wouldnt surf for a month or two....just to have a break from it.

not to sure about the beating triggering it.....they just happened randomly...there wasnt really anything that he should avoid doing so as to not trigger them

Post by **smackthatlip** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:05 pm

Sorry to hear about your mate Muzz. Condolences to the family. The guy must have been a bit of a charger to get out there in spite of his epilepsy. Hope you and the mates go the Central America trip in his honour.

Post by **Nick Carroll** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:45 am

Body floated onto Newport Beach this morning. Been in the water a little while (days?). Wearing boardies. Cops are on it.

Post by **stoive** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:27 am

that must have been hectic to see...

Post by **muz2035** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:38 am

smackthatlip wrote:Sorry to hear about your mate Muzz. Condolences to the family. The guy must have been a bit of a charger to get out there in spite of his epilepsy. Hope you and the mates go the Central America trip in his honour.

thanks....he woulda loved that he was being talked about in the paper and on surfing forums.

HE was def a charger....

Will def still be doing the Central America trip in his honour....as cheesy as it sounds...he'll be there in spirit.

Post by **bombora** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:22 am

Muzz, my condolances. Best mate has epilepsy and refuses to stop surfing, its his passion above all else. But he's had one fit in the water at DY which scared the crap out of me. We where both on our fih and I'd just taken a wave and was paddling back out, about 30 metres away when he slipped off his board and started convulsing. So damn lucky an older mal rider, the only other guy within 100m _ was right next to him but he had almost lost his grip on my mate, holding him by his hair, by the time I got there.
Don't know if anyone remembers those "how to save someone" series in the surf mags but rolling someone whose in the water onto a board _ even a big ol' mal _ is heaps heaps harder than it appears, even in almost flat surf!!!! I know it sounds grandma-ish but its worth five minutes practise with your mates so you are prepared! (and lets face it with the surf population getting older and with so many 30-40 something newbies you are MUCh more likely now to be confronted with a heart attack/stroke/fit etc etc.) How you gonna handle it??

Post by **Digger** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:08 pm

Very sorry for your loss, Muzz. Hang in there.

Epilepsy is a shocker and it seems to be becoming far more common these days. My 8yr old has it and it scares the shit out of us. We also have 2 other close family friends whose kids have it as well. At this stage, he does not have violent fits so we are extremely lucky. But, we dont even let him take a swim in our pool without making sure there is someone to keep an eye on him. We keep him on his medication and hopefully he will grow out of it. He is learning to surf and there is no way we are going to take our eyes off him when he is in the surf regardless of his age and ability. Interesting fact is that we thought originally that it was depression (recent forum topic). I wonder if any other 'D' sufferers have been tested for epilepsy. It was one of the first things our specialist checked when we had our first appointment. There are so many different forms of epileptic episodes incl deep depressive states.

Post by **Hawkeye** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:16 pm

muz - my sympathies. How is his family?

I had to rescue my daughter a couple of years ago - she was all of 40kg dripping wet, was conscious and able to help, and that was hard enough. Trying to help a 70-80kg+ unconscious adult male ... far from easy :? Don't know that I'd cope alone.

Post by **JuBu** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:31 pm

Condolences to you and to your mate's family Muz.

Post by vb » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:40 pm

Re Newport body: Police believe male in 30s although decomposition advanced. Death is being treated as suspicious

Post by **oldman** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:50 pm

Condolences to the family and friends,

While it was stormy down at Coogee yesterday it wasn't big. Coogee shore break does load up, though. Apart from the epilepsy possibility, you could get a good thumping on the sand and get knocked out by it, and there's always the possibility of being hit by your board.

A strange person at work told me someone drowned at Coogee yesterday. I suggested it must have been another back-packer, as I couldn't believe that a surfer would drown there.

Wrong, again.

Post by **Nick Carroll** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:56 pm

Hawkeye wrote:I had to rescue my daughter a couple of years ago - she was all of 40kg dripping wet, was conscious and able to help, and that was hard enough. Trying to help a 70-80kg+ unconscious adult male ... far from easy :? Don't know that I'd cope alone.

Not easy at all hawk. Have urged crew in the past to do some training in this area -- as bombora suggests, situations like muz's are gonna come up more and more in years to come, not just due to age but numbers. And you will want to be able to do something when the situation comes up, you really really will.

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