A man paddle boarding off Gibraltar feels like he’s “won life’s lottery” after narrowly missing a falling rock that smashed his board in two pieces. Charles Lopez says it was only when he reviewed the footage once he had gotten back to shore that realized just how close to catastrophe he really was. GBC reports the local government is reassessing rockfall dangers in the area following the incident. This is some scary stuff.

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