{"id":44746,"date":"2014-01-13T13:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44746"},"modified":"2014-01-13T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:29:22","slug":"vince-collier-rescues-woman-in-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=44746","title":{"rendered":"Vince Collier Rescues Woman In Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/collier.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/collier.jpg','popup','width=400,height=289,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\/2014\/01\/collier-tm.jpg\" height=\"144\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Collier\" \/><\/a>Santa Cruz, California surfer <strong>Vince &#8220;The Godfather&#8221; Collier<\/strong> was about to go fishing the evening of January 3, 2014 when he heard the cry of what he thought was a baby sea otter. Turns out it was a woman who had fallen 30 feet down the cliff along West Cliff Dr., according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/santacruz\/ci_24897879\/former-pro-surfer-helps-rescue-woman-from-cliff\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The woman, who wore denim from top to bottom, was hard to spot on the rocks, he said. . . &#8220;I put my pole down because it sounds like someone is screaming for help,&#8221; Collier, 53, said on Sunday as he described his role in helping the Los Gatos woman. &#8220;She was in and out of consciousness.&#8221; . . . Collier said he climbed back up to West Cliff Drive to direct folks gathered in a parking lot near Merced Street to call 911 while he returned to help stabilize the woman until rescuers from the Santa Cruz Fire Department arrived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The tide was rising fast and Collier says she would have been swept out to sea if he hadn&#8217;t heard her. Thanks to Collier&#8217;s work the woman survived with numerous injuries including broken teeth and ribs. If you&#8217;re going to be rescued from something in Santa Cruz, there&#8217;s probably no one better to be rescued by the Vince Collier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/santacruz\/ci_24897879\/former-pro-surfer-helps-rescue-woman-from-cliff\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz, California surfer Vince &#8220;The Godfather&#8221; Collier was about to go fishing the evening of January 3, 2014 when he heard the cry of what he thought was a baby sea otter. Turns out it was a woman who had fallen 30 feet down the cliff along West Cliff Dr., according to a story [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746"}],"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=44746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44749,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746\/revisions\/44749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}