The pictures we have here are of my friend Dave and his recently broken ankle, more to the point his very seriously broken ankle. Dave was an ocean lifeguard with Eric and I in New Jersey and he's a volunteer lifeguard here at Tamarama. Anyhoo, Dave and one of his mates, as they say here in Australia, were doing a shark sweep in an IRB, inflatable rescue boat, in some pretty hairy conditions when Dave was confronted by a 2.5 meter meter wall of water. Dave was driving and he wasn't able to get the IRB squared up in time so the wave pitched Dave, his friend and the boat upside down. This happened so quickly and with such force that it instantly snapped Dave's ankle, he didn't actually hit his ankle on anything nor did his ankle get caught between two objects, just a simple and very rapid change of direction. Now I have on occasion flipped a rescue boat (I imagine Eric has as well), I've gone over the falls backwards (it doesn't get much scarier than that), I've been hypothermic on more than one occasion, however I never stacked an IRB into a wall of water and broken my ankle in the process. Dave wins the Life Guard Worst Injury Award hands down. Take into account that Dave's ankle isn't in shadow, it's really that color, not pretty.
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