Surfing accident in Europe leaves San Diego man hospitalized NBC 7 San Diego
The Keegan family spent what was supposed to be a joyous trip in the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal in a hospital after a surfing accident left a San Diegan paralyzed.
James Keegan was surfing with his 10-year-old son when he went underwater and became unresponsive.
The phone rang and it was the police in the Azores saying my husband had been in an accident and they have my 10-year-old son, James Keegan’s wife Erin said.
Erin Keegan, said the accident is puzzling because James Keegan has decades of surfing experience.
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She said her son explained what he saw.
He caught a wave in front of my son and when my son finished his wave he saw his father face down in the water. He flipped him over and saw that he was unresponsive, so my son dragged him to the beach and screamed for help.
“We don t know. We think he must ve hit the sand. There was no rocks where they were swimming but we don t know because everything happened underwater, Erin Keegan said.