Can you die if you surf immediately after you fly?

Question

I heard that a young man got off the plane and went surfing and died right afterwards...any truth to that?

Answer 1

i think you can get sick if you go swimming or deep sea diving because of the pressure change

Answer 2

You are thinking of the Bends. You don't get that from surfing, you get it from diving and then re-emerging too quickly.

Answer 3

Only if its a wide body plane.

Answer 4

yes if you have any serious heart ailment

Answer 5

no, there is absolutly no truth to that. i also heard about that.

Answer 6

ok...maybe if you drown.

Answer 7

what no

im still alive

Answer 8

Unless the waves are dangerous enough to kill you for your skill/fitness level then not true at all. If that was the case, I'd never go on surfing trips, neither would anyone else. And all the pros on the ASP would tour would be dropping like flies.

Answer 9

wtf. no, there is know way. then alot of traveling surfers would all be dead. that guy proply steped on some posisnious thing in the water

Answer 10

If you have some heart problems, but when i got back from a trip to new york, i headed to the beach right when i got my stuff i'm perfectly fine

Answer 11

unless you have effing serious health problems no. h**l i've done it.

Answer 12

The answer to this has nothing to do with surfing. Perfectly healthy people sometimes die suddenly after long car or plane rides due to a pulmonary embolism. Blood sitting static in the lower extremities will develop small clots, which can unexpectedly break off and flow into and block a pulmonary artery. If it gets that far, it usually is instant and unexpected death, although it is easily explained.

In 2006, my wife experienced a pulmonary embolism, however, she cheated death, and it created only a partial obstruction, and it was treated with massive doses of blood thinners. She is still on cumidin today.

If you fly a long distance, say from the US to Australia, even for young healthy folks, it is important to stand up and stretched and walk around a little. I made that flight 35 years ago, in a C141, and it was a pain. I guess we didn't know (or didn't care) about pulmonary emboli then. (or it was against Navy regulations to get a pulmonary embolism!).

I have been surfing since 1966, and pulmonary embolism is not SURFING related.