A 10-year-old boy from Dallas, Texas, briefly loses consciousness while in rough ocean surf during a vacation in California over the weekend, according to his father. The boy, Nathaniel Rai, reportedly goes limp as strong waves knock him down. His father describes the moment as frightening, saying the child seemed aware he was drowning. Multiple accounts describe a dramatic rescue involving a teen who acts to help the boy in the water. After the incident, the boy survives the episode, with the rescue preventing further harm. The reporting focuses on the sequence of events in the ocean—when the boy is knocked down by waves, loses consciousness momentarily, and then is pulled from the water—followed by the father’s account of what he saw and what the child’s condition appeared to indicate. The articles do not present differing details about the core facts of the incident: a brief blackout in surf, a rescue by a teen, and the boy remaining alive afterward.