A Perth father has been left paralysed after a freak wave accident just three days after Christmas. 9News
Fly-in-fly-out worker Scott Race was dumped by a wave at Secret Harbour, hit a sandbank and broke his neck.Fly-in-fly-out worker Scott Race dumped by a wave at Secret Harbour, hit a sandbank and broke his neck.
His partner Peta Byrne leapt into action, fought to pull him from the water before two strangers waded out to help."I pulled him up and he does a big gasp of air and he's like 'I can't move, I can't move'"."He's been our protector, our provider, our everything to our family and then to see him like that it's so hard," Byrne said.His partner Peta Byrne leapt into action, fought to pull him from the water before two strangers waded out to help.
"Just in a split second your whole world can change and get turned upside down - look at us this is our world," Byrne said.
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