{"id":1032,"date":"2008-07-07T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2008-07-07T19:55:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T02:55:29","slug":"oregon-surfer-run-over-by-dory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Surfer Run Over By Dory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/coleaction.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/coleaction.jpg','popup','width=250,height=376,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\/2008\/07\/coleaction-tm.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Coleaction\" \/><\/a><strong>Cole Ortega<\/strong>, 14, a competitive snowboarder from Bend, Oregon lost his arm (between the elbow and shoulder) while surfing in Pacific City, Oregon after he was run over by a dory (a 20-foot-long motorized boat) driven by <strong>Darrel Martin<\/strong>, 55, of Beaver, Oregon, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/breakingnews\/2008\/07\/update_young_bend_surfer_loses.html\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Live<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Other surfers grabbed the boy&#8217;s severed arm and helped him to shore on a surfboard. <strong>Doug Shugart<\/strong>, an Oregon State Police trooper checking fishing licenses, rushed into the water to help, said Tillamook County Sheriff <strong>Todd Anderson<\/strong>. Shugart grabbed his medical bag and started working on the boy, whose arm was severed between the elbow and shoulder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, the boats come in and out off the beach and when the surf gets big, the &#8220;high waves often obscure visibility in the popular surfing area.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Life Flight crew airlifted him to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland. His condition was not available Sunday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with Cole and his entire family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Editors&#8217; Note: For updated coverage <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/breakingnews\/2008\/07\/two_surfers_recount_dory_colli.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/strong><strong>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/breakingnews\/2008\/07\/update_young_bend_surfer_loses.html\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Live<\/a><\/strong> photo: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbachelor.com\/winter\/services\/terrain_info\/grom_squad\/ColeOrtega\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mt. Bachelor<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cole Ortega, 14, a competitive snowboarder from Bend, Oregon lost his arm (between the elbow and shoulder) while surfing in Pacific City, Oregon after he was run over by a dory (a 20-foot-long motorized boat) driven by Darrel Martin, 55, of Beaver, Oregon, according to a story on Oregon Live. Other surfers grabbed the boy&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}