They had ignored warnings before climbing onto the rocks, presumably for selfies. Footage shows the daughter engulfed by a wave.
A father and daughter who climbed onto rocks in pounding Hawaiian surf, presumably for selfies, nearly paid with their lives.
“They wanted a better picture, even through they were told not to go,” Hawaii News Report explained this week in footage credited to Shutter Lifestyle.
The footage (posted below) shows the daughter nearly being swept into the turbulent zone beneath the rocks.
“After climbing up and getting right to the edge they were hit with a wave that let them know they were in danger,” the Instagram report continued. “They decided to get out of there but by then it was too late. A series of waves pounded the cliff sending a wall of water over the side and on top of them.”
Viewers can see the daughter lose her footing and her shoes, “snatched off her feet,” washing into the ocean. Fortunately, the father reached his daughter before the next set of waves struck.
“The dad was able to get her to safety but not [before] she suffered cuts to her legs,” the report continued.
Hawaii News Report added: “All of us who live here in Hawaii know that had she entered the water in this surf it would almost certainly have been a tragedy.”
The acrobatic mammals seem to enjoy surfing large waves as much as their human counterparts.
Bottlenose dolphins, like surfers, love to ride big waves – even if that means sharing the waves with surfers.
The accompanying footage, showing dolphins leaping next to surfers at Rincon near Santa Barbara, was shared Friday by Surfline, along with the clever intro:
“If you get dropped in on at Rincon, it was most likely on porpoise.”
Surfline used the footage, credited to Nick Liotta, as part of its prediction for more large surf to slam the region Saturday, courtesy of a powerful west-northwest swell.
The main surfer in the footage might have been Spencer Fanticola, who commented below the video: “Best wave of my life.”
It’s not uncommon to spot deer on California’s Monterey Peninsula, but it is quite rare to see the animals strolling along the beach and playing in the ocean.
It’s not uncommon to spot deer on California’s Monterey Peninsula, but it’s quite rare to see the cautious animals strolling on the beach and playing in the surf.
The accompanying footage, captured recently by Liz Selbicky, shows several deer emerging onto the sand and dipping their hooves into the water.
Some are shown following receding waves and turning to run from the advancing surge, as might a child or a dog.
“I’ve lived here my entire life and I’ve never seen deer frolic through the ocean like this,” Selbicky told KSBW 8.
Selbicky explained to Viral Hog: “I was getting ready to go surfing inside Pebble Beach near Spanish Bay when I noticed a family of deer dart across a 17-mile drive from the golf course down to the beach.
“The younger deer appear to be playing in the water as the buck seems to try and get them to move along.”
The ocean temperature was 52 degrees, apparently not too cold for deer or surfers.
A New Zealand photographer has captured images showing orcas surfing in shallow water in pursuit of eagle rays.
Last September, a New Zealand photographer captured striking images showing orcas surfing Mt. Maunganui. The critically endangered orcas are so revered that lifeguards halted vessel training to allow the mammals to pass safely through the area.
Erin Armstrong’s images were picked up by national media and last week a New Zealand Herald story was shared via Facebook.
Upon seeing the images I reached out to Armstrong and Ingrid Visser, founder of the Orca Research Trust, to ask if surfing is a common behavior for New Zealand’s orcas.
Said Visser: “Surfing orcas in New Zealand is far from rare. I regularly get reports of this occurring and I’ve observed it many times myself. However, I’m typically in my boat – so I’m on the ‘outer side’ of the waves and can’t get images like these.”
Armstrong had stated via Instagram that the orcas she photographed were hunting eagle rays. “Incredible just how close they come in to shore, all in the pursuit of the eagle ray buffet,” she wrote.
In an email, Armstrong added: “On this day there was a crew training from the local Omanu Surf Lifesaving Club in their inflatable rescue boat. The New Zealand orca population is one of the most physically scarred in the world due to interactions with boats.
“I knew the orca were traveling down the coastline so at the risk of missing my opportunity to get the photographs I raced up to the Surf Club to ask if they could get their crew off the water. Super grateful to them for acting fast and allowing and although there was a lot of running involved, I still managed to get the shots I wanted.”
Visser provided a link that includes images of orcas preying on rays and sharks, and surfing near the shore. New Zealand orcas also prey on fish, birds, and octopus.
Visser said orcas sometimes play in the surf between hunting forays.
Said Armstrong: “It is pretty incredible that these guys do visit our waters reasonably frequently, but that does not mean that they are easy to see. They’re very stealthy so every interaction [I witness] makes me feel like the luckiest person in the world.”
–Images were used with the permission of Erin Armstrong and are protected by copyright laws
An 11-year-old girl playing in the South Carolina surf last weekend responded as any kid might after seeing the dorsal fin of a shark approaching from just feet away.
An 11-year-old girl playing in the South Carolina surf last weekend responded as any kid might after seeing the dorsal fin of a shark approaching from just feet away.
Sara Oister stood and ran with her bodyboard toward the shore, and her mother said it might be some time before Sara is brave enough to return to the water at Myrtle Beach.
“Welp, not sure we’re gonna get her back into the ocean,” Nicole Oister wrote on Facebook. “You can see whatever it is coming from the left towards her and she spots it and runs.”
The fin appears 10 seconds into the 14-second clip, and vanishes beneath incoming whitewater created by a small wave. The shark, if it was in fact a shark, can also be seen behind Sara as she runs toward the beach.
Nicole Oister told ABC 6: “I was taking video of her and all of a sudden she starts running out of the water. She said she saw a fin coming up out of the water towards her … I looked back on the video to see if I had captured it [and] I did.”
Added Sara: “Even though I know we’re in their habitat, I didn’t think I was going into that day thinking I was going to be right next to a shark.”
The fin looks to belong to a small shark, which would have been searching for small prey items and not young girls on bodyboards.
George Burgess, the director emeritus of the Florida Program for Shark Research, told ABC 6 that an apparent increase in shark sightings is not surprising.
“What we are seeing, of course, is an increased population of humans that are in the water every year,” Burgess said. “So the density of humans in the waters is higher than ever. We’re engaging in aquatic activities that put us at risk.”
