{"id":7434,"date":"2009-04-04T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T17:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2009-04-04T10:57:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T17:57:26","slug":"surfing-surfers-depths-of-despair-inspire-a-life-saving-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7434","title":{"rendered":"Surfing &#8211; Surfers&#8217; depths of despair inspire a life-saving design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A FEW years ago, Grant Humphreys was surfing a three-metre wave with mates at the fabled Javanese reef break Grajagan, a place famous for its long, hollow left-hander.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What happened next is a common fear of surfers. He fell and was held under water for what seemed like an eternity, even though it was probably a few seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;You get a blackout feeling, and then start panicking about the next wave coming over,&#8221; Mr Humphreys said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The experience lingered in his mind and eventually inspired a project for the final year of his industrial design degree &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/national\/surfers-depths-of-despair-inspire-a-lifesaving-design-20090404-9sh0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=3619&amp;p=12689&amp;pw=15937\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FEW years ago, Grant Humphreys was surfing a three-metre wave with mates at the fabled Javanese reef break Grajagan, a place famous for its long, hollow left-hander. What happened next is a common fear of surfers. He fell and was held under water for what seemed like an eternity, even though it was probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-surf-products-tests","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7434\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}