While surfing may not be the same, he said he wants to get back up on the board at least one more time. Steinley is out of the ICU after two surgeries with a long recovery ahead. He added, "Eric did all the right things by being in a space where he could get that immediate help." Steinley "was lucky enough to be in and around a space where there were other people that were there to help him." The California Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed that this was a great white shark, at least 10-feet long, based on the DNA and bite radius from Steinley's surfboard.ĭave Bader, chief operations and education officer at the Marine Mammal Care Center, said bites from great white sharks can be severe. Timothy Saluzzom, a paramedic who responded on the scene, said the care Steinley got prior to his arrival "really helped to save his leg." The group "held me on the board, kept up the board and carried me all the way up the steps, saving time for when the ambulance got there." "All of the surfers that were with me out in the water came out altogether and grabbed this big, long board and put me on that long board," Steinley said. Nearly a dozen surfers rushed in to help once they got to shore, using surfboard leashes as a makeshift tourniquet to help stop the bleeding. "He goes, 'You going to make it, don't look at your leg, let's just keep going.' And then we paddled in together until a wave came, and then I gave it my all," Steinley said of the moment he fought to get to safety. When Davis saw Steinley's leg, he said it looked like there was a red stripe on his wetsuit. "And I catch up to Jared and he paddles next to me."
"I started to see spots and then I know, you know, I'm definitely I'm not going to make it," he said. Nearly a five minute paddle from shore, Steinley said he questioned his own fate. As part of the milestone anniversary, Hawaii dubbed Morey the "Father of Boogie Boarding" and made July 9 "Day of the Boogie," according to the Register.MORE: Girl details shark encounter in shallow beach waves The impact of Boogie Boards is still seen today and was celebrated in July when Morey's invention turned 50 years old. Because of the trademark, boards that are similar to Morey's invention are called bodyboards. Today its owned by the Wham O toy company. In 1977, Morey sold the Boogie Board name and company. It had a huge market," said Dick Metz, founder of the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center in San Clemente, in an interview with the Register. It had a huge impact on recreation, not just surfing. "The Boogie Board was such a versatile tool – you could use it behind boats in lakes or kick around in a swimming pool. The Boogie name came from Morey's relationship with music and replaced the original name of S.N.A.K.E., short for side, navel, arm, knee, elbow.īoogie Boards proved to be fun for people of all ages and found uses in places other than the beach. The first Boogie Board sold for $10, according to the Register, after Morey was approached by a man who spotted him riding waves one day.įrom there, Morey and his family moved back to California to produce and sell the boards.
On a surfboard, you're not feeling the nuance of the wave, but with my creation, I could feel everything," Morey said as he recounted his first ride to .Īfter his ride, Morey's wife Marchia, who was eight months pregnant, became the second person to test out the Boogie Board, according to The Orange County Register. "I could actually feel the wave through the board. With his new creation in hand, Morey went to the beach to test it out. It weighed around three pounds - a fraction of what traditional surfboards weighed at the time. By the time he was done Morey had a short board with a mostly rectangular body and a rounded nose. He then worked to shape the foam with an iron after putting pages of the Honolulu Advertiser on top. In 1971, Morey was living in Hawaii when he cut a large piece of polyethylene foam in half.
By this time Morey had already begun experimenting with surfboard designs.īut it wasn't until Morey left Southern California that he created the first Boogie board. Using his degree, Morey went to work for Douglas Aircraft as an engineer but left to start his own surf shop in 1964, according to the Post. Morey attended the University of Southern California, where he studied music before switching to mathematics and graduating in 1957, according to The Washington Post. Morey grew up in Laguna Beach, Calif., where he started surfing and became one of the area's most notable surfers of the '50s and '60s.
Tom Morey, the inventor of the Boogie Board and a renowned figure in the surfing world, died Thursday at age 86.
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