Watch: Shane Ackerman // Astronaut In The Ocean
"Doormat, esky lid, booger, shark biscuit, myna bird of the sea, dick dragger..."
Water off a duck's back for Shane Ackerman, who in just a few years of wave-riding made everyone, even hardcore stand-ups, stop and take notice.
Shane's heavy water trajectory wasn't obvious; a skinny kid who didn't like the water, he was slowly drawn to ever-heavier waves. You'll see from the clip that making the wave is sometimes incidental to testing his body agaisnt the power of the wave.
It's only short, clocking in at 11-minutes but Astronaut In The Ocean is a tidy bit of content marketing from Yeti.
Comments
"who ever that was......died". Classic!
Love his passion. Imagine some of his POVs. Good luck to him.
Damn that was good. Meanwhile surfing has a highly paid 2x world champ who refuses to take off on anything hollow over 4ft. Kind of makes you wonder.
Fantastic. Lunatic.
Great Stuff, what a charger
If Shane's going, so is my camera. (& me)
Fucken hell. Shane Ackerman for PM!
Just bloody Awesome
Fark, that was nuts.
How is that guy still in one piece?
Enjoyed that. Keep charging mate. Love your path.
That was such a good watch. So much respect... inspirational
Inspirational! There truly is only one Shane Ackerman.
Mad dog.
That thing he swims under at The Right is the stuff of nightmares.
And the story he tells about it makes it even worse.
Up there with Mark Healey and not many more when it comes to fearless
That is something mental at 9:15..!! Great footage. Thanks enjoyed this a lot.
well, there's what you play your mums, groms..
Legend.
That wipe out POV footage from tahiti reaffirms my lack of desire to ever surf waves like that.