Six Foot Curl About to Hit at Jones Beach
by John Telfer
Title
Six Foot Curl About to Hit at Jones Beach
Artist
John Telfer
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Photograph - Photograph
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While at Jones Beach located in Wantagh, New York on the south shore of Long Island. The water was very rough and the waves extremely hire then normal as a storm was off the coast of Long Island expecting to make land fall that night. The water was very dangerous to be in and the lifeguards had their hands full pulling swimmers in who were trying to go out to far. The lifeguards restricted the beach to a small area to swim in so that they could keep control of the swmmers. Besides the huge waves the undertow was making being in the water ridiculous. As I sat close by I took out my camera attached my zoom lens and set the camera to shudder speed as to capture all of the action in the water. Just as I found a mountain of sand to sit on and take my photo this 6 foot plus wave came right at me, still curling and with wicked white water riding a top this huge wave. I quickly took several shots and ran as the wave continued to carry that curl right up to me missing me by about 4 feet. After putting my camera away I decided to test the water and broke through a small curl and stayed on the bottom of the water then I came up rode a huge wave over the top and did not realize there was another one right behind it only six feet away which smashed me like a feather to the bottom of the ocean, and with the riptide and the undertow everytime I came up I got pulled under. I wound up 40 feet west down the beach where I started and with a sore neck and shoulder from being tossed and turned under the waves and the ocean. My friends said they saw me go under and start to fight to come up so they followed me down the beach until I was able to ride a wave in to safety. I have this photo to remind me how dangerous the ocean can be and how lucky I was that day.
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July 28th, 2012
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