Surfing icon Bethany Hamilton pleads for medical miracle after ‘precious’ nephew found unconscious in bath

Surfing icon Bethany Hamilton has requested a medical miracle for her “precious” nephew, who is fighting for his life in Hawaii.

Bethany’s three-year-old nephew Andrew was found unconscious and not breathing in a bathtub. He was evacuated to Kapiolani on Oahu Saturday morning.

The young boy still has a beating heart and is “fighting inside” – but is currently in intensive care after the drowning, according to his worried family.

Shark attack survivor Bethany, 34, said: “We are destroyed. But I know how much proper medical support can make or break a person’s chances of survival.

“In this case, we are asking for help from anyone with information on what we can do to give my nephew the best chance.”

Bethany’s brother Noah, who is not Andrew’s father, also asked people for prayers – calling his little nephew a “strong, resilient kid” and an “amazing swimmer”.

Surfing icon Bethany Hamilton said Saturday she needed a medical miracle for her nephew who drowned in Hawaii.

His brother Noah Hamilton said his nephew Andrew wasn’t breathing in the shallow water of a bathtub.

He wrote: “Join us in prayer for my brother’s fifth youngest child, Andrew, as he was on a flight to Oahu in the middle of the night.

“He’s three and a half out of five. He is a strong, resilient child and an amazing swimmer. It was found that he was not breathing the shallow water in the bathtub. His vital signs were enough to take him to Oahu.

The family was able to reach Dr. Paul Harch, a world-renowned expert in hyperbaric oxygen therapy for child drownings.

It was her son who informed Bethany under her post: ‘Dr. Harch is my father. I just sent you a message with his cell number. He wants you to call him. Sending you and your family lots of love.

HBOT involves a patient breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Its goal is to increase the level of dissolved oxygen in the blood, which could contribute to the healing of brain tissue.

In an extraordinary case, Harch successfully repaired 2-year-old Eden Carlson’s brain damage after she pushed her way through the baby gate and a heavy door, then jumped into the family pool in Arkansas in February 2017.

When her mother found her, she was lying on her stomach and motionless.

After two hours of CPR and 17 EpiPen injections, her heart started beating again, but doctors warned she would be confined to a vegetative state for the rest of her life.

Andrew (pictured bottom, center, surrounded by his family) was evacuated to Kapiolani on Oahu Saturday morning and still has a heartbeat, according to Bethany.

Pictured: Little Andrew and his family, pleading for prayer after the tragedy.

Pictured: Dr. Paul Harch. In an extraordinary case, Harch successfully repaired 2-year-old Eden Carlson’s brain damage after she pushed her way through the baby gate and a heavy door, then jumped into the family pool in Arkansas in February 2017.

Today, in what is considered a world first, Eden runs, talks and laughs with as much energy as before, after undergoing 40 cycles of oxygen therapy.

The results were so striking and Eden’s MRI scans improved so clearly that her case was published in a medical journal, Medical Gas Research.

The therapy is not approved by the FDA and is not covered by insurance.

Bethany is best known for a shark attack at age 13 that nearly derailed her career.

In 2003, while she was surfing off Kauai with a friend’s family, a 14-foot tiger shark bit her left arm just below the shoulder.

The others were able to swim her to shore and put a tourniquet on her, but she had already lost 60 percent of her blood by the time she arrived at the hospital.

A tiger shark that was captured and killed shortly after the attack had pieces of a surfboard lodged in its jaws, and it was later determined to be the attacking shark.

Despite her devastating injury, Bethany took less than a month to recover before returning to surfing, and she had her first professional competition after the 2004 attack.

Their hopes were fulfilled when they were able to contact Dr. Paul Harch, a world-renowned expert in hyperbaric oxygen therapy in cases of child drowning.

Bethany is best known for a shark attack at age 13 that nearly derailed her career.

In the most recent update, Bethany (pictured) wrote that she was looking for a hyperbaric chamber doctor in Queens or Kuakini on Oahu and if anyone knew any contact information.

Social media users sent their warmest wishes to the family.

One wrote: “Miracles are real! Our 13 year old daughter drowned while doing a freediving competition with her friends. She passed out and was underwater for at least 10 minutes before being discovered.

“Prayers, CPR and a major medical intervention brought her back to us. We were fortunate to see her make an almost complete recovery. I pray for your family.

Another wrote: “He has a heartbeat. Hallelujah, he cries for air in his lungs, and his brain lobes remain intact.

In the most recent update yesterday, Bethany wrote that she was looking for a hyperbaric chamber doctor in Queens or Kuakini on Oahu and if anyone knew any contact information.