A Tale of Two Dramatic Big-Wave Rescues

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Every winter, the Pacific Ocean produces massive swells that roll across the open sea and crash into the Hawaiian island of Oahu. For more than 50 years, the surf world has gathered here, on the North Shore, along a stretch of legendary beaches that are collectively known as the Seven Mile Miracle. A lot of drama is to be expected: epic rides, agonizing wipeouts, and every so often, a heroic rescue. In this episode, we share two stories from the latter category. One comes from photographer-filmmaker Jeff Johnson, who, back in the day, was a young lifeguard at Sunset Beach, determined to prove himself. The other is from big-wave rider Kohl Christensen, a North Shore local whose work to safeguard the lives of other surfers recently ended up saving his own.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by the 2020 Ford Explorer.
0:05.0	With available intelligent four-wheel drive and the terrain management system, it's built for life's adventures,
0:11.0	which makes it the ideal vehicle for modern day explorers like Mike
0:14.9	rooftop Eskimia. Hey my name is Mike Escamilla I am the world's most
0:20.0	interesting dad. He's not kidding. Mike's Instagram feed which captures
0:25.1	his adventures with his young daughter Luna has over 115,000 followers. Yeah I
0:30.3	get a lot of I get a lot of messages about about all the stuff I do with Luna, and actually have other dad friends
0:36.7	like, dude, I see your Instagram and it makes you feel like a bad dad.
0:39.4	It probably helps that Mike is a professional stuntman and a pro-BMX racer. But ask
0:44.8	Luna why her dad is so interesting and she'll say something else. Road trips.
0:49.7	The thing that's great about these road trips and me and Luna go on is they kind of go anywhere.
0:54.4	Like we take helicopter rides and sea plane rides over San Francisco, driving on sand dunes.
1:01.4	We have so much fun together.
1:03.2	If your day job involves jumping out of burning buildings on a film set,
1:07.0	you might think road tripping with your daughter's team.
1:09.8	But for Mike, it's all one big incredible adventure.
1:13.6	All these things that I get to do with my daughter
1:16.6	that maybe when I'm doing them alone don't seem so extreme
1:20.6	or that crazy, but with Luna and seeing her face the way she lights up
1:24.7	and so excited to get to do the things she's doing,
1:26.8	rock climbing or snowboarding or helicopter rides
1:29.2	or riding horses, there's nothing better than it. I could have never imagined that I could be so
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