#1: IAN WILSON

With precisely zero technique, we awkwardly swim-shuffled her to shore, trying to pin her limp body down to prevent her from getting pushed off as we worked through the waves. When we finally got in, she said nothing. She just stood up, walked up the sand, and just sat there staring. Her husband and kid came over totally confused with no idea about what just happened. There were people all over the beach and this woman just came within an instant of dying in plain sight of everyone, and no one knew. To the rest of the world, it was just another calm, sunny, peaceful day. We paddled back out, quietly shaken. It was so surreal—how quickly it happened, how silent the whole thing was…