Nathan Fletcher Injured At Pipeline
January 8th, 2009, 4:00 pm by Jeff Malanca, contributing writerAir specialist and big-wave charger Nathan Fletcher broke his leg Wednesday while surfing at Pipeline on Oahu’s North Shore.
The San Clemente native is no stranger to the notoriously gnarly left-hand reef break. Fletcher apparently took off on about an eight-foot wave, where he did a cutback, and that’s when things went wrong. He ended up breaking his femur in two places and was rescued by North Shore lifeguards.
Fletcher underwent surgery at a hospital in Hawaii and is likely to be out of the water for the next three months. This means he won’t be competing in the Mavericks Big Wave Contest in Northern California, which has a waiting period through the end of March.









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