Surfing Injury

As you might have seen in my last blog, I surf. I'm defiantly not a professional, (in fact, nowhere near it!) which means I slipped up quite a bit at first. During slip up in particular, I slipped off my board and fell into the ocean. As I was paddling back to shore, the saltwater had gotten to my eyes, to they were blurry and I didn't see the child in the water in front of me. As I ran into him, we roll over and the shovel he was holding (a quite sharp one apparently) made a small cut into my shoulder. The cut was really small, more like a scrape, and was nothing serious, but at the sight of blood the child's father did panic a bit and so did I. The lifeguard examined both of us and nothing was wrong, even though the poor little boy was quite confused. My slip up was absolutely nothing compared to the one I saw happen once. I was sitting on the sand, watching the waves, when a surfer came into view. Nothing new, really. But then things took a turn. Another surfer dropped in on the guy's wave. One of them had to get off or they might risk colliding into each other. Neither budged. As they came closer and closer, I was beginning to think they would be alright until at the last moment, they hit each other. The both slipped off their boards, submerged in water. To my right were two lifeguards, their whistle in their mouths, ready in case.They weren't coming up. The lifeguards raced into the water just as one of the guys came into the surface, yelling. As they were dragged out, we discovered that one of the surfers was cut his forehead on the other guy's board. He was rushed to the hospital, and he was bleeding everywhere. I definatly hope not to experience something like that...