Buzzy Trent

Buzzy Trent, born Goodwin Murray Trent Jr. on May 13, 1929, was an American pioneer of big wave surfing who died on September 26, 2006, at the age of 77. Born in San Diego and raised in Santa Monica, he body-surfed as a child and started surfing at twelve. He moved to Hawaii in 1952 and pioneered big wave surfing with George Downing and Greg Noll, gaining international fame in 1953 when Scoop Suzuki photographed him riding a 20-foot winter wave at Makaha in the first widely published photos of big wave surfing. An all-state football player, he was also an active diver and hang glider, and he appeared in the 2004 documentary Riding Giants, directed and narrated by Stacy Peralta.