Long before he sold it as a product, Shanan Worrall used the theory behind Shark Eyes to protect him as he dove in sharky waters. These days, as interactions increase and statistics pile up, he's informing surfers about something the dive community has long known about.
The pre-dawn air bites as Ryan Scanlon trudges across the frost-covered paddock, gumboots crushing grass beneath his feet. While the surf might be pumping at Bells and Winki, just seven kilometres to the south-east, he's got 100 cows to milk before school.
Through the fog, he can just make out a glow emanating from Torquay – Australia's surf capital and home to industry titans Rip Curl and Quiksilver. The same distance that takes fifteen minutes to drive is a distant world to the teenage farm boy, hands raw from manual labour.
Cotty on why a kamikaze attitude won't work, how future big wave surfers will travel faster, and the ridiculous difference between effort versus reward in big waves.
Leg burners from the mouth of the Oka River.
Former world number 19, surf administrator, and man-of-many-talents, passes away age 51.
Because big waves are meant to be viewed on a big screen.
From reeling sandbars, to 20ft barrels, and onwards to offshore, barrelling beachies.
