Dashel Pierson

4 days ago | yardbarker.com | Dashel Pierson

Back in January, less than a month before the kickoff to the 2025 World Surf League Championship Tour, three-time world champ Gabriel Medina withdrew from the season indefinitely. He had suffered a pectoral injury while surfing, underwent surgery, and was on the mend. A huge shakeup to the 2025 season. His return, at least this year, was questionable. Now, it appears Gabby is healed up – enough to test the goods at Brazil’s newest wave pool, Beyond the Club Sao Paulo, where he’s is an investor.

5 days ago | yardbarker.com | Dashel Pierson

As mentioned in the caption from Surfline, per Chief Forecaster Kevin Wallis, this swell was "the result of a strong but not crazy, eye-popping storm. But what it lacked in strength, it made up for in track and location. It moved almost directly at Tahiti over the last few days and the peak seas only occurred only 1000-1500 miles away.

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Dashel Pierson

The Gulf Coast of the United States is a beautiful, although surf-starved, region of the country. The waves are inconsistent, the swell windows are scarce – still, there’s a healthy population of surfers, who foam at the mouth anytime a hurricane funnels its way into Alabama, Florida, and beyond. One of those surfers, who grew up surfing the fickle gulf side of Florida, was Warren Smith. And so, he had to get creative…mainly by traveling elsewhere to score waves.

6 days ago | surfer.com | Dashel Pierson

Warren Smith talks Shell Point Surf Club, coming to Panama City Beach, Florida summer of 2027. The Gulf Coast of the United States is a beautiful, although surf-starved, region of the country. The waves are inconsistent, the swell windows are scarce – still, there’s a healthy population of surfers, who foam at the mouth anytime a hurricane funnels its way into Alabama, Florida, and beyond. One of those surfers, who grew up surfing the fickle gulf side of Florida, was Warren Smith.

6 days ago | yardbarker.com | Dashel Pierson

Further details surrounding the situation showed that the man was fully clothed when he dove into the surf to save the dog. It's unclear if the dog even belonged to him. He reportedly collapsed at some point. Two women were the first to attempt to rescue the man, before lifeguards and fire officials arrived on the scene and initiated chest compressions and CPR. The man was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital. As for the dog, it apparently was fine, and got out of the water on its own.