Open Water Survival: Surfing Gone Wrong | The Outside Podcast [LISTEN]

This episode of The Outside podcast will tackle open water survival and what to do when you’re in that particular situation.

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Open Water Survival Techniques

Serious surfers train themselves to be ready for difficult moments: a brutal wipeout, being held down underwater by waves, losing a board and being forced to swim a mile to shore.

Then there are the kinds of experiences that nobody is really prepared for, like getting pushed out to sea by winds or currents and set adrift where nobody can see you. To get through that scenario alive, you need extraordinary fortitude.

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In this episode, we revisit one of the most surprising tales we’ve ever told on the Outside Podcast. We imagined what it might take to survive being alone for days on a surfboard in the open water—and then found someone who endured exactly that.

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