MOSSEL BAY NEWS - A surfer, Shuan Solomons (30), from Surfing SA, recently gave swift first aid to a Mossel Bay teenager who sustained a head injury while body boarding at Inner Pool at the Point in Mossel Bay.

Solomons, from Cape Town, was judging the knee boarding championships at Outer Pool and was standing at an apartment above Delfino's when he saw three youngsters struggling in the water at Inner Pool.

Solomons says he could see that two of the surfers were trying to paddle the other man inshore and he says he could see that the one's face was red. "I guessed that it was blood and walked down through Delfino's and told them to call an ambulance."

Solomons says he immediately realised that the body boarder probably "got dropped" on the rocks. "When I got to them they shouted to call an ambulance and I told them we already did."

He says the young men were panicking and he could see that the injured body boarder was bleeding a lot. "There was a big cut running across his head. I took off his rash vest and put it on the wound. I took him out of the water and checked his vital signs and waiters from Delfino's came running with cloths. I took the rash vest off and put the cloths with bandages on and wrapped his head. He said that he was cold and we cut his wet suit off and wrapped him in a towel."

The ambulance arrived and Solomons handed the injured youngster over to them and says he then went back to the contest.

The Mossel Bay Advertiser requested comment from the boy's family. The family, however, asked for their privacy and did not want to talk to the media about the incident.

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