A sad day for our ocean cowboys.
A few short years ago there was one surefire way to get on a mainstream news outlet, if you happened to be a surfer, and that was to go and ride giant giant giant waves.
Like Garrett McNamara and his Nazare!
Who could ever forget the cutest clip of all time? Two best pals riding around, sharing a laugh…
Oh it warms the cockles doesn’t it just though?
But it seems these salad years are over. This winter has produced some of the biggest surf in recorded history and yet I haven’t seen GMAC on any normal news channels. I haven’t seen him on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, TNT, TBS… None of them!
It seems like the public has tired of big big big surf. It seems like to get any attention you have to be a cute 10 year old doing a little midface cuttie while a giant great white rolls underneath you.
The above image went absolutely everywhere yesterday. Everywhere!
Poor Garrett.
Read about the boy, the shark and his father here!
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GMAC didn’t really want to go between those rocks but Anderson got him to try something new….something about those piercing blue eyes.
Isn’t it just a guy duckdiving?
Poor Garrett indeed, Veterans deserve more of our time and respect. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Wait till you cunts read Garrett’s …well I guess it’s a first person biography. His childhood will warm the cockles of your hearts.
You actually read it! I figured the actual text couldn’t possibly eclipse the stunningly good cover, so I decided to leave well enough alone.
Man! The text is fucken amazing. Weird, because it’s been written by this obviously very skilled writer who has somewhat unfortunately written it all in a quite different voice to Garrett’s. But the back story is everything you could hope for.
Just wait until you get to the chapter on the Gulf of Tonkin.
Ha!