Gold Coast surfer and professional abalone diver Mark Morlock, 41, could lose his right eye after an attack he calls the “most brutal and cowardly thing I’ve ever seen,” according to a story in the Courier-Mail. Another surfer fired his board directly into Morlock’s face stabbing him in the eye while the two were at Snapper Rocks.
He said a fellow surfer who he unwittingly cut off on a wave at the same break about five months ago confronted him. . . “I heard a voice behind me go ‘hey you’ and I’ve turned around and he goes ‘you remember me?’,” Mr Morlock said. . . “I said ‘yeah I remember you, what do you want?’. Then he let his board go from between his legs, straight into my face. He said ‘you’re not laughing now, are you mate?’
Morlock has reportedly undergone 12 hours of micro surgery to save the eye and the offender is described as a “notorious troublemaker.”
[Link: Courier-Mail]
