Spencer Matthews

Our driver had told us about an issue with rabid seals in the area and that they had attacked someone days before.

And he was like, it's probably not a problem.

Don't worry about it.

I was like, well, of course I'm worried about it.

Why would you tell me that?

And sure enough, I've been in the water for half an hour.

Seals start kind of diving over me.

And, you know, you can't see anything.

So I can feel these things in the water with me.

Don't know what it is.

So it was just generally a kind of pretty negative experience where your mind just floods full of dread and fear.

And you have to...

you have no choice but to just handle it, right?

So you have to calm down.

You can't continue to operate in that space.

So you breathe, you think about your kids and nice things and, you know,

food that you like whatever it might be you know you just relax and try and try and imagine you know a song that you love uh and just just really try and um grind it out of your mind and then um you know then I lost sensation in my arms and legs and stuff as I think I mentioned and

It just, it was a bad experience, you know, got out of the water and then that just felt, wow, that felt a bit risky for my liking as a father and, you know, a husband.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, you wouldn't necessarily care so much before and I've always been a bit gung ho, but that was, you know, I came out of the water and I was like...