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Surfing Accident
Lifestyle
Support Swells For Long Island Man Following 'Tragic' Surf Accident
The community has rallied around a Long Island man fighting for his life after he was the victim of a surfing accident that put him on life support. Austin Gibbons, a 25-year-old man from Long Beach, spent Monday, Feb. 5 surfing at Hawaii’s Banzai Pipeline, as he might on any day. However, as he went to take his last wave of the day, the unthinkable happened. “He was held under by the brute force of two waves of whitewater, which unforgivingly filled his lungs with seawater,” wrote Traci Johnson Kilduff, who set up a GoFundMe for Austin and his family. Fellow surfers and lifeguards ru…