Imperiled Kitesurfer Reaches Safety, Gets Cited
FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Kitesurfer Brian Ackerman was two miles out to sea alone when things went bad. Ackerman was on a recent solo trip from Point Sal to Vandenberg.
One of the four lines that harnessed him to his kite broke, stranding him. After he gathered his partially detached kite, he made a one-hour paddle back to shore in what he described as a "near-death drowning." Once he reached land, about a quarter-mile north of Guadalupe, Ackerman rolled up his kite and started a long trek back to his launching point.
Before long, however, the bedraggled waterman president of the Central Coast Kitesurfing Association encountered Oceano Dunes State Park Ranger Alan Marshall, who responded immediately to Ackerman's situation by writing Ackerman out a citation for trespassing on protected land near pole 8 in the Oceano Dunes.
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