Hotel Quarantine For Australian Tour Surfers
Think they have room service here? elsewhere // Jan 14, 2021
Words by Jed Smith
With the Hawaiian leg of the rejigged 2021 World Tour coming to a premature end, most of Australia’s tour talent has returned home and begun their two-week stay in the hotel quarantine.
Julian Wilson is shacked up with filmer Jimmy Lees. Wade Carmichael is quarantining with filmer, Jess Little. Connor O’Leary is flying solo, though with the added luxury of an exercise bike arranged by Surfing Australia head coach Bede Durbidge.
Macy Callaghan and her partner/pro surfer, Sheldon Simkus, are sharing a room. So too, Bronte Macaulay and her father, former West Oz pro, Dave Macaulay. The pair have been passing the time with an inventive interpretation of indoor tennis across their beds.
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A Surfer Rescues a Woman Caught in a Rip Current
An Australian surfer named Mikey Wright was in Hawaii filming the ocean when he noticed a woman caught in a rip current. People were trying to rescue her with no luck, so he dropped his phone and ran into the water, and pulled her to safety.
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Warning! There s an S-word in the first clip
. That s the one where he drops the phone and runs into the water. The second clip is him actually rescuing her.)
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Champion surfing siblings have spoken about their heroic efforts after a dramatic video of them saving a drowning woman in Hawaii last week shocked the world.
Australian athletes Tyler, 27, and Mikey Wright, 24, made a joint rescue of a female beachgoer who was swept out into the rocky reefs at Ke Iki Beach in Hawaii on New Year s Eve.
The dramatic moment Mikey ran into rough surf to rescue a woman being dragged out into sea was shared widely online, with viewers calling the sibling rescue an absolutely heroic effort .
Mickey Wright (pictured, centre) rescued a woman who was dragged out into the rough surf on New Years Eve