Bam! An immense wall of water hits me in the chest, knocking the breath from me and forcing me backwards, off my feet. A ...
Every day, Cole Taschman heads out to Bathtub Beach in Stuart, Florida. The quiet reef on the Atlantic Coast got its name ...
The National Weather Service has issued a high surf advisory that is in effect from 6 a.m. Tuesday through 6 a.m. Wednesday ...
Kenji was able to catch a wave back to shore. Then Gary, along with their other friends, used a surfboard leash to tie a tourniquet around Kenji’s leg to stop the bleeding. “That’s the only thing we ...
I KNEW THAT I WANTED TO STOP THE BLEEDING BEFORE WE GOT HIM TO THE TO THE HOSPITAL, AND EVEN BEFORE WE STARTED MOVING USING A SURFBOARD LEASH TO STOP THE BLEEDING. 93 STITCHES, THREE TENDONS ...
What happens when you go cold turkey on waves for a week? When you can't surf? Here’s what I missed with every fiber of my ...
A Maui man who lost a part of his leg to a shark bite is now out of the hospital and thanking those who saved his life and ...
This wasn't Cole Taschman's first brush with a shark. Twelve years prior, he had been bitten by a smaller shark while surfing ...
Cole Taschman has been bitten on the same beach, in the same area, near the exact same spot not once — but now twice.
Want to surf every single day of a seven-10-day trip? Then don’t go too overboard the first day if it’s firing. Pace yourself ...
Taschman’s girlfriend, two friends and a food truck operator rallied him into a car and fashioned tourniquets out of the surfboard leashes as they sped to the hospital. “I actually blacked out ...