Loading ...Well it teaches you respect for nature and water waits for no one. Be a wave or a river.
I only got cut by coral on my ankle once. I just barley swam past it under water but water moves you around a little bit. I don’t remember it hurting but just a bit and was surprised at how fast it can cut you. I forget how long a distance the detection of that blood can travel but no sharks that I know of popped up. From my understanding great whites don’t usually hunt people but can mistake them for seals especially if there on a surfboard cuz under water they look like a seal. I didn’t have enough memory or info how frequent a shark attack was on a surfer when the long boards were used but when the smaller boards started becoming popular the attacks seemed to pick up or maybe because communication picked up. I can imagine a smaller board under water could look like a seal.
Im guessing a general rule is for each 10 Ft of water you should be able to hold your breath 1 minute and that’s if multi waves don’t hold you under. The 50-70 footers could be do or die but some of those surfers and go beyond 2-3 minutes to 4 minutes and never go alone. Best way to gauge that is look for patterns. Might be 3-4-7 waves then a break of some kind and take the last wave which many tiles seems the best waves. I never snorkeled in real break waves like that before. I’d be afraid the water would rip it off me Lol when the
CMT started showing symptoms luckily wasn’t surfing any more now farther inland but sudden cold would set off sudden and severe muscle cramping that would feel like I was being tasered. I decided to go out a few times on days off on the beach but the though about that stopped me and wasn’t going to wear a life vest and don’t know if that would of even helped. Now the damage is done I guess the pain went with it and have to undo the conditioning that jumping in the water will be instant pain like being electrocuted. At first I though you’ll never get me to hate the water. Well it didn’t, but did get me to fear the consequences.