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Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted
Some of the media were portraying the father as a hero for saving his son.
Sadly he was a victim of arrogance (not using PFD's) and now his son gets to live with that memory.
Would not be surprised that alcohol was involved at some time prior too.
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A dad saving his child is not a hero, he was simply doing his job as a parent.
Saving some total stranger, that is a hero.
And yea, he was not very smart to go out there with no flotation devices. As a kid of 14, living in Hawaii, my mom asked one of her friends if I could go surfing with their boys. They were older, and experienced. It was my first time. They said the waves were way out, and to paddle along with them. I was tired by the time we got out there to the "good waves". I stood up, and promptly fell off, and the board just kept going by itself. There I was, almost a mile out and the other kids were gone. No flotation device on me. I had to swim almost a mile through the surf occasionally hurling me to the bottom. I finally crawled up on the beach, exhausted. Right then the kid that was supposed to teach me asked where the board was. I emphatically said I don't give an EFF! and lay there trying to catch my breath. It was the closest I have come to dying, and I kept say to myself, just keep swimming. Fortunately I was a strong swimmer. That was my experience at surfing.