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The family of the 10-year-old boy rescued by a 16-year-old Santa Cruz lifeguard in a dramatic and heart-pounding viral video is describing the intensely emotional surf rescue for the first time. "Another two of three seconds, I don't think my son would have made it," said Sumit Rai, the father of the rescued 10-year-old, Nathaniel.
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The family of the 10-year-old boy rescued by a 16-year-old Santa Cruz lifeguard in a dramatic and heart-pounding viral video is describing the intensely emotional surf rescue for the first time. "Another two of three seconds, I don't think my son would have made it," said Sumit Rai, the father of the rescued 10-year-old, Nathaniel.
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Father of 10-year-old rescued in a dramatic scene captured on video says lifeguard saved his son ‘Super proud’: father of teen lifeguard recounts dramatic ocean rescue The father of a 10-year-old rescued from pounding surf off the California coast in a dramatic scene captured on video says he is beyond grateful to the teenage lifeguard who saved his son. “He ran into that water despite those conditions that are deadly,” Sumit Rai told the Associated Press on Wednesday. “You have 10ft waves; you have riptides and currents coming in. Continue reading...
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The father of a 10-year-old rescued from pounding surf off the California coast in a dramatic scene captured on video says he is beyond grateful to the teenage lifeguard who saved his son.
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The father of a 10-year-old rescued from pounding surf off the California coast in a dramatic scene captured on video says he is beyond grateful to the teenage lifeguard who saved his son
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The 16-year-old lifeguard rescued a 10-year-old who had been swept offshore at a California beach.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 7 reports from 5 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Father of boy saved in dramatic Santa Cruz surf rescue says son 'assumed he was going to die.” The covered outlets are based across 3 regions — US, UK, and Other.
The earliest report in this entry came from BBC News (Jul 28, 2026, 21:09 UTC); the most recent came from ABC7 Los Angeles (Jul 30, 2026, 15:28 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 3 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “rescued from pounding”.
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