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Hanging 10 on Screen With Real Surfers – Gerard Butler in the Surfing Movie ‘Chasing Mavericks’
Early on the morning of Dec. 19, 1994, a surfer named Jeff Clark stood alongside a few friends on a high bluff just outside Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, Calif., watching 40-foot waves crash onto the reef at the big-wave surf spot known as Mavericks. The offshore winds were dangerously gusty, and Mr. Clark, 37, who had been surfing there for two decades, felt it prudent to wait for them to abate.
Several of his friends were already in the water. Among them was Jay Moriarity, 16, who had only surfed Mavericks a few times and was the youngest person Mr. Clark had ever seen challenge the spot. When the biggest wave of the morning swept in … More
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