The King of the Atlantis nearly lost his life in the water.

Jason Momoa appeared on the “Smartless” podcast Monday and recounted the time he almost drowned off the coast of Maui 18 years ago.

“I was doing this paddle, we went in at Jaws,” the “Aquaman” star, 46, said, referring to the island’s biggest surf break. “We paddled like 13 miles down the coast. You’re kind of almost a mile offshore, and then my leash snapped.” 8

Momoa explained that he was “trained pretty well” but he still “took quite a few [waves] on the head.”

“They’re pretty big, like 10-foot Hawaiian waves,” he recalled. “But I’m probably half a mile at that point offshore. And it’s actually this place is called ‘S–f—s’ because there’s all this water that pulls out and of a channel there, [and] you just get hit wi

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