{"id":11303,"date":"2009-10-31T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T14:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11303"},"modified":"2009-11-01T16:50:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T23:50:30","slug":"rob-bains-shallow-dive-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11303","title":{"rendered":"Rob Bain&#8217;s Shallow Dive Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bain-420x0.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bain-420x0.jpg','popup','width=420,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bain-420x0-tm.jpg\" height=\"307\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bain-420X0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former number five in the world surfer <strong>Rob Bain<\/strong>, 47, made a little miscalculation while surfing on October 11, 2009, near his home in Sydney, Australia according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/surfing-greats-brush-with-death-20091031-hqvs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. It began with something we&#8217;ve all done before. After getting off a wave in shallow water he pushed off the bottom and dove back out toward the line up. Only this time it was a little shallower than he thought.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018I\u2019d done this a million times before but for some reason I think I was further in on the reef than I thought. As soon as I went under the water I felt my head just full-straight-on smash into the rock. . . \u2018\u2018All the force propelled down through my spine and I felt my whole back explode.\u2019\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bain miraculously made it back to shore, with a fractured vertebrae, three compressed disks, a broken rib and a gaping head wound. After a week in the hospital he&#8217;s very lucky to be alive and walking. Thanks for the reminder, Rob. We hope you get well soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/surfing-greats-brush-with-death-20091031-hqvs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former number five in the world surfer Rob Bain, 47, made a little miscalculation while surfing on October 11, 2009, near his home in Sydney, Australia according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald. It began with something we&#8217;ve all done before. After getting off a wave in shallow water he pushed off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11304,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions\/11304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}