![]() Throughout the show there’s an amazing cast of some of the world’s best watermen and women: 11-time world champion Kelly Slater, big-wave chargers Mark Healy, Greg Long and Keala Kennelly Hawaii’s most notable lifeguards including Clyde Aikau, Terry Ahue, Mark Cunningham, Dave Wassel, and Johnny Angel. This 90-minute movie traces the history of lifeguarding in Hawaii from Duke Kahanamoku and the Waikiki Beach Boys in the 1920s to Eddie Aikau on Oahu’s North Shore in the 1970s, to Brian Kealana and Terry Ahue pioneering the use of personal watercraft (jet skis) with the Hawaiian lifeguards in the 1990s, to the death of big-wave surfer Sion Milosky and the formation of the Big Wave Risk Assessment Group in the 2011.īig Wave Guardians is mixed with the history of lifeguards is the growth of surfing in the early days of Waikiki to the big-wave discoveries on Oahu’s North Shore. “Big Wave Guardians” tells the incredibly dramatic stories of Hawaii’s big wave guardians – the lifeguards who risk their lives in the world’s most dangerous waves. ĭon’t miss the premiere of the feature-length documentary “Big Wave Guardians: First Responders of the Sea,” at the Hawaii Theater in Honolulu, Hawaii on Tuesday, June 21. Surfing’s elite hell-men risk their lives to save their friends while challenging a realm beyond. Īs surfers push the limits and crowds increase, a small group of heroes have reinvented water safety on a parallel track to the rising dangers.Īddicting thrills VS inherent peril – they are caught up in both. Massive swells, life-and-death rescues, and “the best job in the world” – yet often most hazardous one – is the compelling drama of Hawaii’s #BigWaveGuardians. Hawaii’s North Shore is the world’s most dangerous 7-mile stretch of beach. ![]() See Big Wave Guardians! Aloha and Mahalo, Gary ‘GQ’ Kewley I floated out of there with awe and gratitude of our lifeguards…and for surfers who push the limits. I promise you this documentary is a Do Not Miss. Thanks to Surfer Joe Teipel for taking me -at the request of his beautiful Wife, Miho- to the special preview at the new Quiksilver Roxy Store in Waikiki Thursday the 16th.
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