A grieving surfer is taking hundreds of strangers' late loved ones for one last ride

In the midst of his own grief following the death of his father, surfer Dan Fischer started the One Last Wave project, through which he found a community of people going through similar pain amid the coronavirus pandemic.

As a child, he loved going to the beach and riding bikes along the coastline with his father, Karl Fischer. So when he lost his dad to pancreatic cancer and his dog of 15 years, Rudy, died shortly afterward, he turned to the healing power of the water.