{"id":5346,"date":"2009-02-17T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2009-02-17T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:02:50","slug":"surfer-rescues-six-after-boat-capsizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5346","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Rescues Six After Boat Capsizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boat with 30 illegal immigrants from the west coast of Morroco onboard  capsized in the surf near Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and  a Uruguayan surfer named Christian Hunt was able to rescue six of them, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/world\/2009\/0217\/1224241279634.html\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Hunt said he ran into the surf from his beachside house after his wife saw that the boat had capsized. \u201cWhen I got out there it was already a nightmare scenario. There were people floating off, the boat was overturned and several people were still holding on to it,\u201d he said. \u201cThey would all have gone to the bottom if they hadn\u2019t managed to grab the boat.\u201d . . . While he threw himself into the water, his wife ran to get the surfboard, which he used to ferry the immigrants towards the beach. Mr Hunt said that on one of his journeys to the boat a 14-year-old boy told him to look for a smaller child first. \u201cI hadn\u2019t realised that he himself was so young,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Twenty-one others died in the accident and three others were still missing according to the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/world\/2009\/0217\/1224241279634.html\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boat with 30 illegal immigrants from the west coast of Morroco onboard capsized in the surf near Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and a Uruguayan surfer named Christian Hunt was able to rescue six of them, according to a story in the Irish Times. Mr Hunt said he ran into the surf from his [&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\/5346"}],"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=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5347,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions\/5347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}