An Instagram video has caught an Australian pro surfer heroically stepping in to rescue a woman being swept away by strong currents in Hawaii.
Mikey Wright was looking out over a beach — identified as Oahu’s north shore — when he saw a beachgoer struggling in the surf.
Wright posted footage of the rescue on Instagram with the caption: “Hold my beer.”
Photo: AFP
Although other beachgoers could be seen trying to help and reach the struggling swimmer, the current was too strong.
Wright steps up, saying that the swimmer is “going to need to get saved.”
Beachgoers can be heard on the video doubting Wright, with someone saying: “You can’t save her.”
However, that does not stop the pro surfer from handing over his smartphone, which is still filming, jumping the fence and charging into the surf.
Fighting the surging ocean and difficult conditions, Wright dives in and picks up the woman, and although they were submerged multiple times, successfully pulls her out of the surf.
A group of people waited for them on the beach, helping them from the water and pulling them to safety.
The video was also posted by Wright’s sister, Tyler, who gave it the caption: “Closing out 2020 with some hero shit by [Mikey].”
It has been reposted by surfers around the world, and has been viewed thousands of times, as people celebrate Wright’s bravery.
Many have commented on Wright’s post, praising the 24-year-old and hailing his selfless act.
Mick Fanning, former world champion surfer, wrote: “Wow, that could have ended really bad. Well done.”
Jessi Miley-Dyer, a former championship surfer, said: “Who needs a cape when you have a mullet?”
Wright comes from a family of surfers, including brother Owen and two-time women’s world champion Tyler, all from the south coast town of Culburra.
The siblings were in Hawaii for the Pipeline Masters event, held just before Christmas.
Mikey placed 17th in the men’s event, but Tyler won the first women’s tour title at Hawaii’s famed Pipeline break, making it an overall successful trip for the Wright family.
New Taipei Kings guard Jeremy Lin on Friday was named the Taiwan Professional Basketball League’s (TPBL) Player of the Month, the first domestic player to win the award, while the Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers are to welcome their third head coach in less than a year. Lin averaged 22 points, 5.4 rebounds and 6.6 assists over five games in October and last month, helping the Kings to second in the standings with a 4-2 record as of Friday. The Kings last night defeated the Lioneers 96-78 to move level with the top-of-the-table Formosa Dreamers (5-2), while in the night game, the New Taipei
Taiwan on Wednesday finished with 15 medals at the World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Hong Kong, taking home four gold, five silver and six bronze medals across the age group divisions. Taiwan ranked third on the medal table after South Korea with 17 golds and the US with eight golds at the five-day competition. “Your athletes have proven themselves as the best in the world,” World Taekwondo president Choue Chung-won said at the closing ceremony of the martial art contest that was attended by a record 1,727 athletes from around the world. On the first day of the competition at the Hong Kong
TO NO AVAIL: The Denver Nuggets’ Serbian center Nikola Jokic surpassed his 53-point performance in the 2023 Western Conference semi-finals against Phoenix The Washington Wizards withstood a 56-point explosion from Denver star Nikola Jokic to beat the Nuggets 122-113 on Saturday and snap their 16-game NBA losing streak. Jokic, who won his third NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) award last season, posted a career scoring high — surpassing a 53-point performance in game four of the 2023 Western Conference semi-finals against Phoenix and a 50-point regular-season best against Sacramento in 2021. The Serbian big man added 16 rebounds and eight assists, but it was all to no avail as Washington, buoyed by 39 points from Jordan Poole, won for the first time
Taiwan’s Lin Cheng-jing won a bronze medal in the clean and jerk in the women’s under-49 kg division at the 2024 IWF World Weightlifting Championships in Bahrain on Saturday. Lin won her first medal at a World Weightlifting Championships for lifting 107kg in the clean and jerk in her weight class, 2kg more than Rosegie Ramos of the Philippines. However, Ramos won bronze for the combined lift after topping Lin by 5kg in the snatch. Ri Song-gum of North Korea won gold in the division’s combined lift with a total of 213kg, while Xiang Linxiang of China took silver with
RSS