A tropical swell is no joke. Heeding warnings of 50-foot waves, your average beachgoer would probably give the boogie-boarding a rest and hunker down shoreside for a while. But not if you’re Fred Pompermayer. He’s stowing his camera aboard his jet ski and launching off right into the danger zone.
His aim? To capture world-class surfers challenging ginormous walls of water—the thrill of man against Mother Nature on the ocean frontier.
Yes, humans can die out there. Humans do die out there, Pompermayer assures us.
Yet the risks he takes on are calculated ones. “You have to understand what the hazards are to avoid accidents,” he tells The Epoch Times, adding that it boils down to “risk management, taking in all the what-ifs.” The key thing is making the right decision in the moment, he says, being in the right place at the right time….