Snapped his board in half

I found Chad surfing at the Ocean Beach Pier.

“One day last year, Coronado was like Tahiti and Hawaii,” he said. "Anybody who surfs out here knows that Coronado has no surf."

But this day was totally different and “The waves were coming through fast, big and heavy.”

Chad found a good size wave then dropped in, but it closed out, and he bailed.

”There were five waves in the horizon and they were breaking right on my head.” The first wave snapped his Firewire surfboard in half, then it held him down. When he came back up, the next wave sucked him down again.