Aaron Gold's Near-Death Accident at Tavarua, Fiji

[@Surfline]

Watch the full episode here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKOneauCgs2hpqs

[@alikajohnson9250]

I remember Aaron from high school days. Still seems super chill and humble. Keep charging🤙🏽

[@timanctil8225]

The guy giving him CPR was on point going that hard, sometimes ribs have to break to save a life... It looked brutal, but was absolutely necessary...

[@timanctil8225]

@Glenn Kirste I am certified in CPR. Glad you are, too. But, what did you think they did wrong? If you save a life, you did whatever you did pretty well I'd say...

[@timanctil8225]

@milkmandan77 For real! Glad for everyone there helping him... a bunch of heros... coulda ended a lot worse...

[@Malcolm_Blake]

Amen brother ✝ Thanks for doing these videos, they are really awesome!

[@mykeydrive]

Watching the guy on the boat get amped up when he starts showing signs of life again is f***ing heavy.

[@AtortAerials]

I wish we could have seen the wave you had an issue on just to see that part of it. Aaron you sound like an amazing dude really helpful to hear this and u explained it perfectly and humbly. Aloha 🤙🏾🤙🏾🤙🏾

[@katherinebutler4054]

Did they say what actually happened? Wipe out and loss of consciousness? And then fellow surfers found him floating? Or did he hit his head?

[@geraldfordman7474]

For that reason, I have tremendous respect for big wave surfers. I've seen Aaron Gold take on humongous waves and so this incident serves as a wake-up call for all others. It could happen to the best, even when well trained. I can see how it has made him more spiritual. These waves are bigger than they ever were before, all across the Face of the Earth. Don't push the limits of paddle in surfing if you value your life.

[@tyberlong]

beautiful video

[@IambiguousSegment]

Is there no footage of the wave?

[@davidallen7404]

So, just pointing out, they are doing a remote video interview while being less than 5 miles apart. :)

[@martynweigh4541]

From hero to zero, c'mon man that's really bang out of order intro!

[@raintreerefuge4679]

Was scrolling through the comment section looking if someone else caught it or it's just me. Let's give the dude the benefit of the doubt.

[@joedirt8625]

The More Ya Know. Glad he made it back.

[@claytonbrown7120]

Trump/Cancer 2020 👍🏻

[@justinsmith4562]

Did Aaron walk from the boat? Like they gave him CPR, he came good and they headed in.. and then did he walk from the boat? That's heavy.

[@Aint1S]

I didn't really hear anything about an ND anything... I'll sum up drowning in a few minutes. The first 30 seconds feel like a lifetime of agony and then everything calms down until you begin to see the light of the surface again. Then you take another on the head, go 20' down, and you're getting gassed! After that first minute, you get another drive from within that you push to the top... you might make it, but I sucked in foam because it was super deep on the surface 18'+and building at HB well beyond the second sandbar. *EL NINO YEAR TOO!* 2 minutes you go crazy thinking your way though this and then you just stop to accept the fact that you're lost, you don't know which way is up anymore, and you realize that it's okay. 3 minutes in and out of it; you're sitting on the bottom as you're beginning to see things like your family, friends, your own funeral, and finally I saw my grandparents! I honestly felt was fine to stay there, I was at peace that I want coming back up and not once did I realize I was going to die after the first minute which you never think of until you make it out. However, once I saw my grandparents I was right back in the abyss and I was hell-bent on getting out of that place... I felt a huge burning in my lungs and I was incredibly alert as that brought back around and told that I had to breath! I could finally fell my board swerving back and forth to the surface as it was tugging at my leg. I realized there was a lull as I reached around to grab leash to figure out which direction I needed to swim. I made my way to the surface and took in what I thought would be a big, deep breath and only found that at some point... I had begun to breath in water and I couldn't breath! Noose bleeding and vomiting as I hung onto my board gasping for air while pushed into the shore break. My friend and his nurse girlfriend ran over to assist me; however, I just had to get the last bit of water out of my lungs. That was the second time I nearly and almost successfully drowned. The first was at the most dangerous place of all, a water park and around 5 years old. That time was a CPR recovery and I can say that peace you feel is all too inviting. From what I've experienced, I can say that man's soul doesn't want to be bound to this body and it will leave if your body isn't in control of the situation. You're bordering on divinity as you get to that point, the unknown and somehow peacefulness of leaving this world. Stay calm and keep your bearings, don't try to force your way up if you're going to have to fight the situation... Stay in control and wait for your lull, they always come. As a sidenote, test your breathing capacity from time to time and push yourself with controlled breathing as well as controlling your heart rate. Easy to say here, but the breathing exercises do help.

[@Aint1S]

I wasn't seen for about 5 minutes from the time I went under. They searched the shoreline as they looked out and I was pinned down right in front of them the whole time. They thought I had drowned and they were almost right!

[@johndoe9608]

Dude.. i always thought breathing in water was a conscious choice from lack of training after which you start vomiting underwater and black out straight away.

[@Aint1S]

@@johndoe9608 I've nearly drowned twice... Once you get to the point of taking on water, you won't even flinch. Mine was well beyond 2 min, but when i thought I breached the water to inhale foam water because my head couldn't go above the deep whitewash... Yeah, I was fighting the reaction to vomit that, but when you hit your limit, it's like your body shuts down any response to your failed efforts. It's unusual but you don't even know you're doing it at that point. When you make it up to finally take a breath, you find nothing coming in... I went down with one wave and they say I was under for about 5 more. If I would begin to swim back up, the board would be on the bottom. Then it my board had started to rise up, I would be pinned. At some point during all of it, I remember my feet being bound by that leash. The day we went out, it started at 18" and by the time we got out, it was well over that; however, the intervals made it impossible to surf as well as the fact that it was straight onshore and walled up. I knew better, I shouldn't have paddled out and it was only 3 of us who tried our luck that morning. You never know when it's going to grab you, pray you don't experience the hold-down that won't give you back up nor push you away from the impact zone.

[@latentsea]

Dude where’s my car

[@josephm40]

A mans gotta know his limitations.

[@JJ-xo7tu]

Uri jumped right in time🙌🏽Thank God

[@thebread9]

But what happened?

[@grimsadventures-bikesnpetr7913]

Jamie really waffles on sometimes.....

[@reycisneros2925]

DON'T BLINK........🎲🎲🎲🍷👤

[@buxtra]

Wow, but see him walking on the beach 'just' after cpr! makes it almost less dangerous to understand the precarious situation.

[@walter992]

Looks like God had different plans for you that day. Glad everything is good and the lessons are well learned.

[@otaviodavid3351]

AMEM! Graças a Dews.

[@claytonbrown7120]

Where is the footage of this humbling ass bust?! Come on

[@MyKierkegaard]

Stop being reckless with your life. Just go to Laguna beach surf small sets.

[@joedirt8625]

The More Ya Know. Glad he made it back.

[@pyzelphantom4355]

how does it feel like to be in a cult of stupidity