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Surfer Pedro Scooby on Brazil flood help

Brazilian surfer Pedro Scooby joined other surfers from across Brazil to help rescue more than 1,000 people after devastation caused by floods in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

The champion big board surfer told Sportshour’s Shabnam Younus-Jewell how he's been driving jet skis to drop off supplies and rescue families affected in the flood hit region and shares how he's adopted one of the dogs he rescued.

The region was hit by the worst floods in the state's history, which have killed more than 150 people, displaced more than 600,000 and left whole cities underwater.

With many roads underwater or flooded, jet skis are one of the only way of delivering food and aid to people still trapped and of transporting people to hospital.

Image: An aerial shot of the scale of the flooding in Rio Grande do Sul. (Photo courtesy of Pedro Scooby)

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