Wetass of the Month–Big-Hearted Bethany: She’s BAAAACK! Just ten weeks after having her left arm chomped off by a tiger shark, 13-year old surfer Bethany Hamilton was carving the waves in competition, taking 5th place in her division and refusing any special treatment just because….she’s surfing with one arm! This kid is a goer. She doesn’t whine, she doesn’t pity herself, she just wants to surf. Her name should be incorporated into surf lingo, to describe a jaw-dropping recovery, as in: “Dude, he was going to face plant on the coral, but pulled a Bethany and shot the tube to daylight.”



Bethany Busts One: “Hmmm, definitely easier to turn right…Now where’s that fu*$ing shark, I’m going to slice him open with my skeg.”

(Photo: Michael Darden via AP)