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After saving a man who was drowning at Sunny Cove beach in Santa Cruz, California, a 17-year-old surfer is now being hailed as a hero.
According to Wate, the local surfer did not hesitate to jump to rescue a young man struggling in the waves on Saturday morning.
The teen identified as surfer Zade Stone-Hinds, a Santa Cruz resident, had just gotten out of the water when he saw the young man. Stone-Hinds said that he got the guy up on his board when he rescued him and let him breathe.
The California surfer then advised the young man to relax as they need to face some sets of coming waves. According to Stone-Hinds, the waves were strong and about 6-8 feet high. In the middle of his rescue, the California surfer ended up losing his surfboard. But it did not hinder him from saving the drowning man.
Teen surfer rescues drowning man from Santa Cruz beach
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A view of the Santa Cruz waters.Sundry Photography/Getty Images/iStockphoto
As Zade Stone-Hinds remembered it, it was high tide at Santa Cruz’s Sunny Cove last Saturday with a lot of big waves towering at around six to eight feet tall.
Stone-Hinds, 17, had just left the water for the morning when he saw a young man struggling to stay afloat and didn’t think twice about jumping in to the punishing waters to save him.
Now, local officials and witnesses are referring to Stone-Hinds as a hero whose rescue “really was amazing.”