Richard Abrams, now retired and living near Playa Dominical, Costa Rica, worked as a lifeguard in Imperial Beach, California, for 18 years. He was hired and trained by Dempsey Holder and mentored by ...

At the south end of the Dominical Bay there's a decent left pointbreak that gets good when the beachbreak is too big to surf.

A chilled coconut, cracked open fresh, was waiting on the beach. After a grueling surf, battling rip currents, overhead sets of beachbreak chaos, and keeping an eye out for hungry crocodiles, the cold ...