{"id":4280,"date":"2009-01-20T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T00:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4280"},"modified":"2009-01-20T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T00:27:51","slug":"surfers-save-downing-man-at-seal-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4280","title":{"rendered":"Surfers Save Downing Man At Seal Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/b78459801z120090120143813000g21g7fib1-md.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/b78459801z120090120143813000g21g7fib1-md.jpg','popup','width=230,height=172,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\/01\/b78459801z120090120143813000g21g7fib1-md-tm.jpg\" height=\"149\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"B78459801Z120090120143813000G21G7Fib1 Md\" \/><\/a><strong>Roy Poblete <\/strong>(left)<strong> and Derek Smith <\/strong>(right) saved the life of surfer <strong>George Romero<\/strong> last Sunday while all three were surfing SoCal&#8217;s Seal Beach according to a column in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/romero-smith-poblete-2286601-time-first\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Now the three have been reunited.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Smith\u2019s guess, Romero had been under water anywhere between 45 seconds and a minute before he was able to reach Romero\u2019s lifeless body. He pulled his head up from the water to see Romero\u2019s eyes rolled back, foam coming out of his mouth. His body was going into convulsions, and he wasn\u2019t breathing.  . . . Smith \u2013 even at a hefty 6-foot 4-inches and 235 pounds \u2013 had trouble keeping Romero above water. He called out for help, and tried to get Romero on his board. Poblete quickly paddled over to see what was happening. . . Then the sets came in, three in a row. They dived Romero under the first wave, then Smith cut his leash to get his board out of the way, so he could hang on tight to George. Smith would submerge underwater, to push up on Romero\u2019s body to keep his head from going under so he wouldn\u2019t take in more water. . . \u201cI knew if I let you go, you would have gone,\u201d he tells Romero. \u201cI was just thinking \u2018hold onto this guy, hold onto this guy\u2019.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thankfully, Smith held on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/romero-smith-poblete-2286601-time-first\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong><strong>] <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Poblete (left) and Derek Smith (right) saved the life of surfer George Romero last Sunday while all three were surfing SoCal&#8217;s Seal Beach according to a column in the OC Register. Now the three have been reunited. By Smith\u2019s guess, Romero had been under water anywhere between 45 seconds and a minute before he [&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\/4280"}],"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=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}