(Sumit Rai via AP)This undated photo taken and provided by Sumit Rai shows his son, Nathaniel, 10, who was the one rescued Saturday, July 25 2026, in Santa Cruz by the teen lifeguard. (Sumit Rai via AP)DALLAS -- A 10-year-old boy rescued by a teen lifeguard from hammering waves off the California coast doesn't remember anything after a giant wave swept him off his feet in ankle-deep water. Video of the rescue showed 16-year-old lifeguard Ryder Williams clinging to Nathaniel Rai as wave after wave crashed over them. “He was two seconds away from dying," said Nathaniel’s father, Sumit Rai. “It turns out we have a lot of common interests and it’s kind of a small world in that sense,” Sumit Rai said.