Laird Hamilton's huge wave at Teahupoo, Tahiti, 2000
We were there on a Rip Curl team shoot in 2000, but our boat had a fouled fuel filter on this particular morning. We were watching Teahupoo from land, wondering what was going on out there. I found out much later that this moment which I had photographed from land was of Laird Hamilton's millennium wave. I could not see him because he was so far below sea level. What inspired me to shoot this image were the people raising their arms in the boat. This taught me the importance of always having your camera trained on the action, if you can, even with circumstances conspiring against you like we had with the fuel filter. Photo: Sean Davey
We’ve chosen to focus our relaunch around the theme: EVOLVE. Transformation is core to who we are, and we put it out to The Inertia’s influencers and most talented contributors to share moments that caused significant personal growth and transformation – ideally with some relation to surfing, but also to life in general. These are a few of Sean Davey’s moments.
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