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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022
The surfing satellite has mislaid a rising champion.
Kalani David died connected Sept. 17 successful Costa Rica, according to the Associated Press. The erstwhile satellite inferior surfer champion suffered a seizure portion surfing astatine Playa Hermosa formation successful the municipality of Jacó connected Costa Rica's pacific coast. He was 24.
"He was surfing erstwhile helium seemingly suffered immoderate benignant of epileptic seizure and drowned," the Judicial Investigation Agency told the AP. "The decease is inactive nether investigation."
Though the jock had Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a uncommon bosom illness that causes accelerated heartbeat and tin provoke paralysis and seizures, helium inactive shined successful sports.
Kalani David won the Junior World Surfing title nether the U-16 class successful Panama 2012 and besides made waves successful the skateboarding world. He took up surfing astatine 18 months aged erstwhile his dada would instrumentality him retired to the formation successful Costa Rica, and helium aboriginal won his archetypal contention astatine 5 years old, according to Seventeen Magazine. He told the outlet, "I really similar getting successful beforehand of crowds, due to the fact that it pushes maine to bash amended stuff."
Photographer Peter King wrote a tribute on Instagram to the surfer, who was calved successful Costa Rica and grew up successful Hawaii.
"He had re connected with household determination and was having specified a large time," Peter wrote. "I'll ever retrieve your stoke erstwhile we'd sprout skate n surf and however overmuch anticipation you had for you future. God Bless the household and extended household that were ever determination for you."
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Fellow surfer Josh Kerr remembered Kalani David arsenic "one of the astir talented guys" he's seen connected a surfboard.
"To ticker him turn into specified a humble, deterioration his bosom connected his sleeve and loyal guys you volition ever conscionable was inspiring," Josh captioned his Instagram post. "He didn't merit a batch of things helium was dealt implicit the past 5 years oregon truthful but helium ever kept his chin up and stayed truthful humble done everything! Gonna miss you buddy."
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