In Chapter Three of Made In Ireland, we meet the expats who left home to live amid the foul weather and epic waves of Ireland, and who’ve helped put Irish big-wave surfing on the map. Two of the hearty souls Maguire’s talking about are South African Barry Mottershead and Australian Noah Lane. Both men came to Ireland as surf tourists, but couldn’t seem to bring themselves to board the plane back home.
13 times Russian national Champion, Champion of Europe and Bronze Medalist at the World Championships, Nikita Martyanov headed off to the largest island on the planet aka Greenland to wakeboard in icy waters in between and on icebergs and over icebergs. In short, there were a lot of icebergs.