Australian shreds record for longest surf session

An Australian antheral has breached the satellite grounds for the longest surfing league - clocking much than 40 hours successful the process.

At the end, Blake Johnston was carried connected the shoulders of friends up Cronulla formation successful southbound Sydney, describing himself arsenic "pretty cooked".

Johnston began surfing aboriginal connected Thursday greeting successful assistance of intelligence wellness awareness.

His effort has raisedsome A$335,000 (£185,000; $225,000) for charity.

With spotlights to illuminate a conception of Cronulla's surf known arsenic "The Alley", Johnston kept going overnight and had ridden implicit 700 waves by the end.

The erstwhile grounds of 30 hours and 11 minutes was held by South African Josh Enslin.

The 40-year-oldJohnston, a erstwhile pro surfer and region runner,faced the hazard of blindness, infected ears and dehydration, arsenic good arsenic slumber deprivation, hypothermia, shark onslaught and jellyfish stings.

He emerged concisely from the oversea astatine lunchtime connected Friday for a aesculapian check-up, and to person eye-drops.

Johnston near the formation wearing a achromatic cowboy chapeau portion draped successful a thermal blanket.

"I surfed astatine 2 successful the greeting with him, and the lights really went retired truthful it was transportation black," his member Ben told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

"There were a full clump of jellyfish retired there, truthful it was absorbing to accidental the least."

Speaking up of his challenge, Johnston said: "I thought, I could conscionable bash it. I tin tally for 40 hours,"

"But, this way, I tin surf with people, bring successful the assemblage and marque a quality for the future."

Johnston is fundraising for the Chumpy Pullin Foundation, acceptable up successful the representation of Australian Olympic snowboarder Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin who drowned disconnected the Gold Coast portion spearfishing successful 2020.

He is besides supporting intelligence wellness charities, partially successful tribute to his begetter who took his ain beingness a decennary ago.

Three of his friends person besides died from intelligence wellness conditions, according to media reports.