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Billy Kemper: Surfer glimpsed at death after wave slammed him into a rock CNN 3/5/2021 © Koji Hirano/Getty Images Kemper competes during the 2019 Billabong Pipe Masters in Hawaii. It was a tiny error in judgement, but within seconds he realized that the consequences could be potentially life threatening. That wave sucked me up into the mouth of it and slammed me onto a rock and just absolutely destroyed me, American surfer Billy Kemper tells CNN Sport. Knocked me out unconscious. Collapsed my lung. My pelvis was broken down the middle, I had to get my knee reconstructed, the injury-list goes on and on, adds the 30-year-old surfer as he details the impact on his body. It was straight up life or death.

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