Wingfoiler plus whale — what does that add up to?
For most, it’s probably an easy solve, but here’s the answer to the test anyway: wipeout.
Most wingfoilers have endured their share of thrashing, but 55-year-old Jason Breen got hammered by a new force of nature last month. Breen was riding off the coast of New South Wales, Australia on Oct. 25 when a humpback whale breached in front of him at point blank.
Breen and his GoPro got tossed, the ocean churned like a washing machine around them, and the whale disappeared. (Multiple sources and commenters hoped the animal was ok.)
As The Guardian reported, it was a close call for Breen. He ended up several meters below the surface, contemplating the end.
“I thought I was gone, to be honest,” he said later. “I thought for a few seconds, ‘This is what it’s like to die.’”
Nope — just a GoPro classic and a story no one would believe without it.
