As Shawn Hannon stood up inside the Ship Bottom Beach Patrol surfboat, a wave pummeled the side of it and he spilled head first into the 62-degree ocean. He was OK, and he calmly ran up the beach toward the finish line, a smile on his face.
“My gosh, I had no choice but to go forward or I would have been sprawled out inside the boat,” Hannon said moments later, laughing at the comical element of the incident that capped the Harvey Cedars Beach Patrol Midsummer Meltdown on Aug.
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