Heroic Surfer Saves No. Virginia Man From Rip Current Off North Carolina Coast

[appalachiablue]

- Dennis Kane, left, with Adam Zboyovski, who rescued him from rough surf Friday in Corolla. [Kane family photo]
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NBC4 Washington, May 29, 2021. - Ed.

A heroic surfer rescued a Northern Virginia man from a rip current off the coast of North Carolina last week. Dennis Kane and his family gathered on the beach in Corolla for an emotional, solemn memorial for his 41-year-old daughter, Kerry Kane, who died unexpectedly a year ago. Dennis Kane and his daughters stepped into the ocean with a biodegradable urn holding her ashes.

"We stayed in for a few minutes and let the urn go,” Dennis Kane’s daughter Shannon Smith said. “My dad seemed like he might need a minute to himself.”

Smith headed back to the beach to tend to her daughter, but soon after there was a commotion when her dad was swept out to sea. They called 911.
In the water, Kane’s brother-in-law Brian George and two other men in the family were trying to reach Kane, when they, too, got in trouble. "We turned to look back, and it was like.. we’re really far out now, and then it was like every man for himself,” George said.

George fought his way back to shore. Kane was too far out, sapped of energy. Adam Zboyovski was working at a nearby rental stand. A woman came running up to me and she’s saying that, you know there were some people in the water and they needed help,” he said. He grabbed 2 surfboards and drove to where the Kane family was watching, pointing.

"I was just screaming to please not let this happen, because I lost my mom — she passed away — I lost my sister and I could not lose my dad," Shannon Smith said. The rental stand worker Zboyovski jumped on a surfboard and shot through the water toward Kane. “As soon as I saw him, I’m like, ‘Hey man, I’m coming,’ kind of just reassuring him that, like, everything is OK, and he didn’t respond at all," Zboyovski said...

More, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/heroic-surfer-saves-virginia-man-from-rip-current-off-north-carolina-coast/ar-AAKuKdo
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Also: Corolla Surfer Rescues Man Caught in Rip Current... OBX Today
https://www.obxtoday.com/corolla-surfer-rescues-man-caught-in-rip-current-while-releasing-daughters-ashes/

.. Kerry Michelle Kane, who died unexpectedly on May 17, 2020 at 41 years old, grew up in Kitty Hawk..She’d always considered the Outer Banks home, said her sister, Shannon Kane Smith, who lives in Northern Virginia.

The family planned the memorial for Kane’s birthday and spent the week in Corolla.
On Friday, about 40 family members gathered on the oceanfront, with many going into rough surf stirred up by distant Tropical Storm Ana to release a biodegradable urn containing Kane’s ashes.

Smith said her father, 71-year-old Dennis Kane, stayed out a few minutes after the others had come back in, but eventually made his way back to shore.
Then he saw the urn hadn’t sunk yet, as it was supposed to, so he went back into the water. All of the sudden it seemed to get super rough really fast,” Smith said. The family realized Kane was in trouble and called 911. They also knew if they could find a surfboard, they might be able to go out and get him...

[JudyM]

1. Beautiful story, happy ending.

This could’ve been a real tragedy for that family.

[appalachiablue]

2. So true, their quick thinking and

the skilled surfer who was able to help were critical to the rescue.

The father lost his wife, and the family was there to memorialize the loss of a daughter.

Another death would have been extreme trauma. Glad it turned out alright.

A remote ocean beach area in Md. is where we scattered my brother's ashes, as he wished.

[JudyM]

3. Mmm.

That’s beautiful, for your brother, and a touching memory, appalachiablue.