Brian Keaulana

Brian Keaulana is a Hawaiian surfer, lifeguard and waterman from Makaha on the island of Oahu, best known for big-wave surfing and for his work coordinating water stunts in feature films. He was born and raised on the beach at Makaha, the son of the Hawaiian surf figure Richard Buffalo Keaulana, and his brother Rusty Keaulana won three world longboard titles. Keaulana played himself in the television series Baywatch Hawaii and has worked as a stunt coordinator or stunt performer on many productions, among them Waterworld, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pipeline, The Descendants, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Jurassic World and the 2015 remake of Point Break. His long experience in the ocean has made him a sought-after specialist for staging water action safely.