![]() ![]() “But it’s all about having the proper knowledge and skill level and the right equipment to reduce all those risks.” “The ocean can be risky,” Brian Keaulana, one of the retired lifeguards who led the charge in Hayden’s rescue, said. Today, many at Pipeline - a surfing mecca in part because it is so perilous - are wearing helmets when they drop in, a somewhat grudging acknowledgment that the sport can be as dangerous as it is cool. But the dangerously close call - witnessed by the sport’s biggest names - sent a ripple through the local community. ![]() ![]() Hayden, now 15, has made a full recovery in the year since and has returned to surfing on the North Shore of Oahu.
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