Matt Warshaw on surf legend Pat Curren, dead at ninety: “He was the slouching near-mute apotheosis of surf-cool: draining an afternoon beer, flicking a cigarette butt to the side before riding the biggest, thickest, meanest wave of the day”
"Curren was the last surviving member of the four men who, in the 1950s, more or less invented big-wave surfing."