"BIG-WAVE DANGER: A HOAX!" BY PETER VAN DYKE
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SURFER ran this article in the January 1966 issue. Author Peter Van Dyke, younger brother of Fred, was best known for his theatrical drop-knee turns in small waves, but he had big-wave chops as well. That's Peter in the spread photos, at Makaha, in the late '50s. * * * I'm awfully tired of all the phony talk about big surf with descriptions of death-defying surfers and those lousy Hollywood movi...
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