Tyler Badet

Tyler Badet helped rescue two unknown individuals from drowning, San Diego, California, January 6, 2021. The duo, comprised of an unknown man and an unknown woman, jumped into the Pacific Ocean from a cliffside near Sunset Cliffs before struggling to exit the water amid 10-foot-high waves. Badet, 18, high school student, was surfing nearby when he noticed the man and women struggling to weather oncoming waves as they attempted to scale the cliffside. He paddled to them and instructed the man to grasp the nose of the surfboard before towing him about 70 feet to safety deeper in a cove along the coastline where the man exited the water. Badet returned to the woman and instructed her to grasp the surfboard. Badet towed the woman to within 5 feet of a rocky cliffside and urged her to release the surfboard and attempt to exit the water. The woman would not let go of the surfboard. Waves crashing against the cliffside pushed them back from the coastline, at which point Badet attempted to position himself and the woman closer to the shore two more times, urging the woman both times to release the board and attempt to exit the water, before realizing that the woman would not cooperate. He towed the woman about 40 feet toward the cove’s center, where he awaited help from responding lifeguards. Lifeguards entered the water and swam to Badet and the woman and retrieved her, allowing Badet to paddle to a rocky shelf about 50 feet southwest where he exited the water. Badet wasn’t injured.