Surfers from all over the world arrived in San Diego on Thursday to participate in the first World Adaptive Surfing Championship .

For Mike Coots, a competitor from Hawaii, the most interesting part about meeting his competition was watching the unique way each person puts on their prosthetic limbs or the way they ride their modified surfboards.

"The human body is very resilient and it adapts very well," Coots, who wears a prosthetic leg, said. "It's cool to see those adaptations in the water."