Swell net story by Ray Collins

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Hippo and the high cost of freesurfing - surf photos by Ray Collins 

Ritechous!!!!!!!

This sequence was a few seconds after I finally surface from that wave.
The shot was taken from a good friend Ray Collins who was shooting from the back of a Ski. he was sitting about 50 meters away from were I feel so I was tripping out when I popped up right next to him.
as you can see in the shot I was fucking rattled .....

Ritechous!!!!!!!

Looking at this shot spooks me out a bit this was the wave that I all most drowned on at the end of last year. 

I had a really thick buoyancy vest on and thought that would help out if things went bad.

What i didn't realise is you could still get pushed down so far that your ears almost burst and takes you over 40 seconds to resurface

hahahah that god for life jackets.