It all started with a wave pool session. Ben Gravy and his retinue were testing out an air section when the novelty wave hunting YouTuber suffered a nasty injury. Luckily, he made it out in once piece – just barely.
Though the pool isn’t called out by name in the video, it appears the whole thing went down at The Wave Source. The Arizona-based facility has been described as a “backyard” wave, due to the fact that it was built by a small, independent team, using prototype technology. And the results have been impressive.
However, things went from fun to scary incredibly quick when Gravy misjudged a landing and hit the bottom of the pool with his board. The board was jammed into his leg so hard that it actually snapped off a few fins.
‘I thought I was really, really hurt,’ he described. ‘I haven’t been in that much pain from what I would call like a minor injury, ever. Every time I was in that level of pain, I had like a broken bone or I tore a ligament or something.’
From there, he crawled out of the pool and frantically searched for what he thought would be a fin puncture to his leg. Instead, he discoverd an arm wound spurting blood. After a 40-minute drive to the nearest hospital, he received eight stitches and was sent home to nurse a nasty hematoma on his thigh.
Honestly, about the best outcome that could be expected of the whole situation. That was a close call.
