Mick Fanning: 20 Great Photos

These three images were taken during the filming of FLOAT for Rip Curl. Clockwise from left: Mick post last session. The amount of images I have of Mick pulling rude heads is amusing. He’s always goofing around when the camera is pointed at him on trips. This was the end of a trip that Mick had been really sick on. His surfing was amazing but the poor lad was crock as a dog for a number of days. We scored amazing waves though thanks to Captain Albert Taylor and Mick left the boat in good health. She’s a roll old boat, the Quest One. We had all had quite a bit of experience aboard this big tin boat as it was the Indies Trader II beforehand. Some open ocean moments had been pretty hectic in previous years, and had put many grown men flat on the floor, incapacitated with motion sickness. In this instance everything had been pretty calm and then all of a sudden we started rocking. I was outside watching the world go by when all of a sudden this swell caught us on the right angle and everything started flying around. I squeezed this frame off as I struggled to look through the finder, so it wasn’t the most technically correct image, although I like it as it shows one of the little moments that take place that make up the whole of a boat trip. The Gentlemen’s Club. After great days of waves, we usually all gather in the Gentleman’s Club to swap stories and talk shit and generally have a great afternoon. Watching the sun set with good mates on the front of the boat on a surf trip never gets old, and I hop it never does. Photo: Andrew "Shorty" Buckley