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to get in that barrel and make it in the barrel and to get spit out is the ultimate euphoric feeling. to capture it on film is just great. shooting the pipeline long enough to know that ideal conditions don t always mean safe working conditions for them. it was one of those days. it was very low tide. very dangerous, 14, 16-foot faces. low tide means huge waves and amazing footage. watch this wall of water crashing right over ray as his camera catches all the action. it was a great day. it was pretty epic. this big set. we see it breaking on the outer reef. larry and i realize we re really deep in the pit, they call it, which is the impact zone where the wave breaks. caught between a crushing wave barreling down on them, and the jagged rocks on the reef below, ray and larry start
i hit so hard, i had two brain contusions with the helmet on. my right collar bone was shattered in half in four places. i had a torn rotator cuff. two broken ribs, bruised lung and chemical pneumonia. this cameraman can barely move but he s still directing action from his hospital bed. yeah, get that shoulder. you got it all? yeah. it was the most excruciating pain you could ever imagine. broken bones are like a picnic compared to the pain i felt that day. love you, larry. thank you, man. in pain? sure. happy to be alive? definitely. i m forever grateful for my good friend larry who saved the day. ray spends nine days in critical care and it takes him a full year to recover. when he finally does get back in the ocean, he says he s not heading straight for the bonsai pipeline anytime soon. my main focus is creating
massive. he was looking dead. i grabbed him, swung him back, got his head out of the water, leaned him back. grabbed him and started squeezing his belly. another surfer sees larry swimming ray ashore and offers his surfboard. they start carrying him out. i came out behind him and laid him on the beach. he was blue. lifeguards and the paramedics frantically try to revive ray but he s flat lining. no pulse. ray was so close to death, he was knocking on the door. he was right there. ray swallowed more than a gallon of salt water. he s rushed to the hospital. clinging to life, he s in a coma for two days. and on the third day, against all odds, ray wakes up. i think i was probably as close to death as somebody can come. the doctors at the hospital all told me, i was the worst drowning victim they have seen that lived to talk about it. it was the worst day of my life. his injuries are severe.
the world famous bonsai pipeline on the north shore of oahu, hawaii. the bonsai pipeline is the a zone. i mean, this is the creme de la creme, one of the gnarliest waves on the planet. it s pretty much the most dangerous wave in the world. you have to be on top of your game to even think about paddling out to the pipe. this jagged reef, big rocks down there. it could knock you out. i ve had really good friends that s died out there. dangerous work. the footage larry and ray capture makes these guys, the surfers, look like the daredevils. but make no mistake, as each 20-foot wall of white water crashes down with bone crushing force, there s an adrenaline rush for the guys behind the lens, too. the swell comes from very deep water. it hits the pipeline, it hits a shallow reef, with such power, it creates the huge barrel.