Man dies while surfing off Dana Point 

Sure it does.

Any idea what happened?

Did he break his neck?

Apparently he had a cut on head with some blood in water...not sure if he hit his head on surfboard (or very shallow sandbar) which knocked him out causing him to drown...nobody else was in the water. Happened last Sunday at minus tide around 1pm...surfline cameras have been reviewed also...show him going down suddenly on a wave and not coming back up. A tragic loss. RIP Evan!

@@toddbefield1100 damn. . . . Rest easy Evan 🤙🙏🙏

@@toddbefield1100 "nobody else in the water" at 1pm truly rare for salt creek.

I am certain he would rather still be ALIVE doing what he loved

Just like every dangerous sport. You don't see golfers or baseball players taking chances and dying. It's not like "any" sport. There are many sports and games that don't kill people.

Also I'm not saying that surfing or body boarding is inherently a dangerous sport but some places and some conditions need a deeper level of respect and awareness.

Some of my best friends I met in a fight. Kinda cool relationships that are lifelong. Mutual respect not every man will scrap.

@@ChalrieD same here bro🤙🏻

Exactly right.......I am down in San Diego also and have surfed (when I was younger) when it was at maximum size here. It's not for anyone who is not prepared.....although, in the case of this young man it seems as though he knew what he was doing....unfortunate and sad. Prayers for him and his family.

@@gabrieln3613 I used to surf a lot and when I heard of the big surf I immediately wanted to go get on the water but now I'm 46 and smoker. Probably not best idea when it's this big to start it back up.

@@longliveavalon Nah go shred it 🏄

No legend just stupid

@@katjay3125 Not everyone who drowns while surfing is an idiot. This was a competent surfer/boogieboarder. An unlucky accident can kill anyone, even on a small day. Your board can hit you in the head, your head can hit the bottom, you can break your neck...

Exactly. No cause of death really mentioned. He must therefore have died of “Suddenly,” that mysterious ailment going around that has nothing to do, of course, with any vax.

@@JeremiahAlphonsus I did a search and found a slightly more detailed narrative of the incident on "Stab", an Australian surf magazine/website. It sounds like he was surfing alone, at more remote peak, and was seen on camera standing up and then falling down, without much explanation. He never collected his board or paddles after that. It sounds like there was contact to his head, with his board, or the bottom. But that doesn't explain why he falls down, and fails to protect himself. Did he lose consciousness after getting to his feet? Was there a cardiac arrest? We just don't know. Additionally, his jab status is unclear. And now we are forced to rely upon the OC Health Department to investigate and then report their findings, truthfully...which isn't always 'a given'. I doubt they're ever going to mention his shot count, if any.

@@anotherworldviewispossible The obfuscation indicates that he indeed died of “Suddenly.”

@@JeremiahAlphonsus there's a way that the coroner can tell if he was dead when he fell, or just drowned, because of the unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head...water in the lungs, or not. There's probably a bunch more ways to tell, but will they? Also - your first comment is shadow-banned. 🤦

@@anotherworldviewispossible How can you tell it’s shadow banned? Not surprised though. RU-vid deleted a video of mine and gave me a strike today for getting really real about this issue.

Rip... I used to take my family here.. I think that jetty area .. I used to hear stuff like this growing up about the wedge but those were known for being huge all the time

Yup I remember very well those rocks..

@@longliveavalon Super fun long left though in the right conditions...that drop though to get one of those 2-300 yard Lefts' was sketchy af bc of that rock grouping out in the middle of nowhere...

Get help

All the evil seem to live forever 🤘🏻

Interesting. That means Queen Elizabeth is Evil as hell! XD

Search his name + Dana Point. There's a few more details in an article on the Australian site - "Stab". Apparently there's video from a surf cam. It seems fairly inexplicable. He stands up, he falls down. He never moves after that point. It sounds like his head was struck, either on the bottom or the board... But we don't have compelling evidence as to why he went down, or why he failed to protect his head. Did he suffer a loss of consciousness as he stood up? Was it a "SADS" cardiac event? Or - was he just unlucky and caught by surprise by something? It seems unlikely, to me, that a good rider, who surfed the Wedge, Puerto Rico and Mexico - gets killed by typical surf at Salt Creek. But we have too many unanswered questions, to tell what this was, presently. Had he received the full number of injections, recommended by the CDC?

@@anotherworldviewispossible if he hit his head on his board wouldn't it be soft as he was a boogie boarder? I agree that is such poor reporting

@@johnwhitworth1328 Not necessarily. You see - he did both. He was a sponsored rider, on bodyboards - but also rode hard, stand-up surfboards as well. It sounds like he was riding his shortboard when the accident occurred.

the jab...no doubt

A great white Brandon got him

What are you talking about? he was irresponsible in practicing a dangerous activity. So it means it is okay for people to die for what they love to do? I like writing and reading philosophy, so how will I die by doing that? Stop repeating things without thinking.

@@frederickwalzer5555 if you’ve never been so passionate about something that risking your life was a price worth paying, you’ve* never really lived at all

Same here. Spent countless days there as a youth. Entered some pretty harsh gravelly barrels. The break was epic but a little nasty. My buddy dislocated his shoulder slamming the bottom and it was never the same.

Being knocked unconscious is the ultimate danger in big surf.… In big surf especially at a beach break, it’s usually a death sentence because your brain has you trying to breathe underwater while you’re out.. and your only hope if you don’t regain consciousness from cough reflexes triggering is to get pulled out within a couple minutes and have CPR performed. Just the other day a pro surfer was knocked unconscious during a contest at Pipeline. He was pulled out just a couple min after being knocked out and still nearly died , ending up in the ICU on a ventilator.

@@ampinghard111 who was it?

@@longliveavalon surfer was kala grace

Sorry I mean Evan.

Reef.

@@honghong3153 we don’t have reef here on east coast but we don’t have big waves either you guys are lucky and cursed be careful out there

@@mikewilliams1993 mmm east coast can get big i thought..

Same here..love that spot minus the crowds though..

I was wondering how he died,,I assume he hit a rock?

Who?

Reef sharp.

@@boogieheads naw I ain’t gay bruh sorry

How could his death have been prevented ?

No one should say his death was "preventable." Accidents happen. More surfers die in car accidents than drownings/shark attacks. Should he have lived life in a padded room to avoid a "preventable" death?

@@H43339 always check the leash hooked on to your leg and surfboard when surfing because sometimes it can get tangled up with your other leg causing you to fall off your board awkwardly or in his case hitting his head on the reef knocking him unconscious causing a drowning

Cant prevent your death when its your time its your time just enjoy life never know when your time is up!!! People say its preventable when its already too late. Its not like he didnt know what he was doing, he was experienced.

My brother was trying out surfing and got his board fins stabbed into his skull. He lived though. Sad story here.

Riding a surfboard at Creek, “Gravels” 2 foot wave. Brown water after the big rain. Unfortunately it was on the Surfline cam and a friend sent it to me. Watched it then deleted it. Glad though I saw it. I surfed with him back when he was younger before I moved but honestly to me it looked like his leash got snagged on something under water pulled him off his board just as he was getting up to stand and went down head first. To me and it’s just what I think, it looked to be a large Log or tree submerged under water. I believe he hit his head. Saw no struggle. Didn’t even know it happened. Nobody was near him so nobody saw. Complete freak accident. I Think what Evan would say though it’s probably best not to surf after a heavy rain when there can be branches and tree trunks floating in the line up. God bless his family. He was such a nice young man.

@@scottycartercom Oh man, that sucks. Surfing next to floating logs is the worst. I’ve served next to them and brown water and scared the crap out of me set would come, and it would rise up out of the water.