Watch a freak wave launch a body boarder 20 feet into the air

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/06/26/watch-a-freak-wave-launch-a-bo.html

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E-ticket ride :question: :exclamation:

You humans nothing but tiny insignificant ants.

xoxo,
Earth

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Nope.

Nope nope nope.

Man i could go to the beach right now…

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Another good one from Reddit

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That was rad

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“Fortunately, he suffered only from a burst lung”

Hmm, does your dictionary have a different definition of the word ‘fortunate’ compared to mine? Granted it’s not an injury I’ve ever heard of, nor know the severity, but it sure dun’t sound good.

(ETA: as always with these kind of incidents, I know it could have been much worse )

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Yes, Fortunately…

Eat it, ants.

\m/,
Moon

Boom!
Wrong place, wrong time.

ONLY was the word in that sentence that stood out to me.

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Apparently it’s when you try to hold your breath and the air finds a way out anyhow; you overpressurize your lung by accident. Divers get a version when ascending too fast (‘the bends’). Thanks, Wikipedia!

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More info on bursting a lung. Doesn’t sound particularly pleasant.

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In Australia, everything is trying to kill you.

While Australia is the undisputed screaming death capital of the planet, I don’t think we can give them credit in this one. The ocean is trying to kill us all, all the time, everywhere.

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