Surfers Hold Memorial Paddle-Out For Andy Irons

The man himself. Photo: surfglassy

Hundreds of surfers staged a memorial paddle-out in Puerto Rico today for Andy Irons, a three-time universe hold up who died of unknown causes earlier this week.

Hundreds of professional surfers as well as staff from a ASP Tour took part in a paddle-out, carrying wreathes as well as bunches of flowers as well as throwing them in to a H2O off Middles Beach. Contest organizers had decided upon Wednesday to postpone a next round of competition until Friday, out of respect for Irons.

Irons, 32, was found passed Tuesday in his hotel room in Dallas, where he had been upon a layover. Irons was upon his approach back home to Hawaii after withdrawing from a ASP Tour with an seizure whose symptoms reportedly resembled those of dengue fever.

Among a pros who participated in a paddle-out was Kelly Slater, nine-time universe hold up as well as accessible opposition to Irons.

It was a huge a organisation of people which got together a couple hundred people paddled out, Slater told a LA Times. Obviously, everybody is very somber, as well as its only harmful news for everyone.

The discovery of multiform prescription medications in Irons room has fueled speculation which he might have died of a drug overdose. Investigators from a Dallas Medical Examiners Office reportedly found methadone, used to provide heroin addiction as well as as a painkiller, upon Irons nightstand, according to a Honolulu Star Advertiser. An primary post-mortem was inconclusive.

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