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It’s almost every surfer’s dream to hang 10 with a dolphin. Right? Well this past weekend, Team O’Neill member Jed Gradisen’s dream tanked after an interesting wave of events.
The 13-year-old Aussie surfer was riding waves off Kalbarri when a dolphin leapt out the air and landed right on top of him. The force of the impact punched a hole right through his board!
The grom chatted about his run-in saying, “In my dreams I wouldn’t dream about of anything like that. Because I think it was an accident. It was just as amazed as I was.
“The dolphin landed on my, sort of, shoulder and the back half of my body. The dolphin reacted, really I think, really shocked, almost as shocked as I was.”
Good thing Gradisen is sponsored… there are plenty of boards where that came from for Western Australia’s under-14 surf champion.
Check out the amazing footage of the accident and his follow-up interview below:
P.s. We hope the dolphin is ok!