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Originally Posted by C. Moore
My Dad is a retired Chair Force Col. He still fly's a lot but he's not much of a water man. Give him a shout and see if he can hook you up with flights or a tour of the island.
I grew up on O'ahu in a place called Aiea, the only us city with all vowels in its name. I lived there from 1979 - 1992, I went to Radford High School and spent a brief stay at UH before I dropped out due to a surfing accident. Surfed at Pipe one day 10 - 15 foot Hawaiian size and hit the inside sandbar pretty hard. Came home that night and found out I collapsed a lung. I was told no surfing for 6 months and sat in a bed for 3 weeks. 
But give my Dad a call. He might be able to hook you up. |
Wow, that's 20 to 30 ft. and at Pipe. Isn't 30 ft. approaching realistic limits of paddling in? That is some intense stuff. You suffered a partial pneumnothorax of your lung from the impact? You must have hit bottom very hard, lucky you didn't touch head first instead.
You could have been an outside consultant on "Blue Crush."
How far off were they in the movie anyway?
Did you line up some large Samoans to help out on "Kill Haole Day" in school?