Chapter: 7
Long Division
- Return of the Longboard
- Simon Anderson and his Mighty Thruster
- Surf and Destroy
- Terror from Below
- The Unsinkable Tom Carroll
- An Explosion of Talent
- Tom Curren's Mile of Style
- How to Turn a Circus into a Riot
- I Predict Waves in Your Future
- Cult of the Surf Photographer
- Video Killed the Surf Movie
- Waves for Sale
- Surf Boom Redux
- Terminally Hip
- Super-Sizing the World Tour
- Somebody Should Do Something
- Surfers vs Apartheid
- Make Room at the Top, Obrigado!
- The Last Big Wave
- Eddie Aikau's State of Grace
- A Beloved Rival
Terror from Below
![Lew Boren's kneeboard. Photo: Ben Lyon](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/fa3bdd61b6bc70829e9fa0f480cbb1ff9b4f8d05-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Lew Boren's kneeboard. Photo: Ben Lyon
![Lew Boren, Monterey County. Photo: Patricia Kintz](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/760240431b963ab6b6c05f24cc9d137c1246af65-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Lew Boren, Monterey County. Photo: Patricia Kintz
![Aussie shark hunter Bob Woodcock, 1981](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/10c600be14f8a0653179f6c90b91987e4da5666f-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Aussie shark hunter Bob Woodcock, 1981
![Mick Fanning, 2015 J-Bay Open. Photo: WSL](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/3bd366f813d18d215b3ad10e343e2dcc054b38e6-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Mick Fanning, 2015 J-Bay Open. Photo: WSL
![Bethany Hamilton, 2016. Photo: Ed Sloane/WSL](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/27673bd5618cbe0c9bcdbc7b288b88c950bd81a9-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Bethany Hamilton, 2016. Photo: Ed Sloane/WSL
For a month or so after Lew Boren's shark attack death, West Coast surfers paddled into the lineup like jittery late-night New Yorkers walking home while Son of Sam was still at large.
On Christmas Eve 1981, a 25-year-old wetsuit-clad Monterey County kneeboarder named Lew Boren was pulled from the shallows of Spanish Bay, near Pebble Beach. His corpse was bloodless, with a perfectly symmetrical armpit-to-hip bite taken out of his torso—the work of a 20-foot-long, 4,000-pound white shark. Surfing, again, was in the news. But this time around, the attention didn’t seem particularl...
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