Letters

Hey Guys,

I want to let you know that you will get through these financial problems and another “golden era” will return. People will realize the importance of Dominical lifeguards and that the local governments will one-day wake up, invest properly, build roads in town and ultimately understand that funding is needed for you…call me cynical but if it wasn’t for Andrew Webster and his team I wouldn’t be alive today, writing this…hang in there, your more important and needed than you realize…my story:

I traveled for 70 days from Belize down to Costa Rica during the summer of 2010…among all the activities I did, surfing the Pacific coast’s from Nicaragua down to Dominical was the most liberating thing I had ever done, until on the last day, August 31, 2010 it almost ended there. On Dominical beach, I got pulled out by a strong rip that I barely noticed and for about…I can’t even recall how long, it just felt endless, I had 10 footers consistently crashing down on me, while being pulled back and forth by the current. Half unconscious and with a dislocated shoulder, then and there I was ready to give up, because the thought of dying and being all alone was so frightening I just wanted it to end. Where I found the strength to swim out of it I will never know…all I remember was being tumbled over by a wave and opening my eyes under water and seeing darkness, and for a short instant everything felt calm until my lungs began hurting. There I realized that dying at 20 was just not right, and how selfish it is to do that to the one’s you love…who will live with that thought. After that, my memory blurs, but I remember swimming towards the beach and although I wasn’t far, I was exhausted and needed help…that’s when I saw the most inspiring thing ever; Andrew Webster on my board swimming in the distance. I didn’t even care about the waves tumbling over me or the water splashing into my lungs…I just screamed “ayudo” until he saw me, swam towards me and saved my life. Whether it was for living or dying I was just relieved of not being alone anymore…I hope people will realize the importance of people like Andrew and his team, and I hope people don’t have to go through what I did just to donate for the right reason. Thanks again Andrew, what you told me I will never forget, and I hope to be back in Dominical one day and continue surfing…
-Luca M.
“No hay fuerza en la tierra mas poderoso que la voluntad de vivir”
-Costa Rica 2010