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Saturday, February 13, 2010 9:17pm PST
Spectators take worst wipeout at big-wave surfing competitionBy: Chris Mauro
Big-wave surfing is dangerous for surfers. But on Saturday spectators became wipeout victims at a big-wave competition in Half Moon Bay, Calif., where, according to the AP, more than a dozen people were swept off of a seawall and injured while being thrown into the water.
Hundreds were standing on the rocky breakwall to catch a better glimpse of the surfers riding the 30-foot waves breaking nearly a half mile from shore, when suddenly, they were broadsided by a giant surge of waves pounding the shoreline.
"It was ugly," said Graham Nash, who watched the entire incident unfold. "It wasn't a single wave that got them, it was whole set of them. The first wave washed a bunch of people off the wall, and the ones that followed threw them around in the rocks." The scaffolding where announcers were sitting was also flooded.
Saturday, February 13, 2010 9:17pm PST
Spectators take worst wipeout at big-wave surfing competitionBy: Chris Mauro
Big-wave surfing is dangerous for surfers. But on Saturday spectators became wipeout victims at a big-wave competition in Half Moon Bay, Calif., where, according to the AP, more than a dozen people were swept off of a seawall and injured while being thrown into the water.
Hundreds were standing on the rocky breakwall to catch a better glimpse of the surfers riding the 30-foot waves breaking nearly a half mile from shore, when suddenly, they were broadsided by a giant surge of waves pounding the shoreline.
"It was ugly," said Graham Nash, who watched the entire incident unfold. "It wasn't a single wave that got them, it was whole set of them. The first wave washed a bunch of people off the wall, and the ones that followed threw them around in the rocks." The scaffolding where announcers were sitting was also flooded.