Darrick Doerner

Darrick Doerner, nicknamed Double D, is a big wave surfer and waterman who became a pioneer of tow-in surfing, the practice of using personal watercraft to tow surfers into very large waves. He grew up in California in the late 1960s and 1970s and moved to the Big Island of Hawaii for his senior year of high school. He then spent more than twenty years as a lifeguard on the North Shore of Oahu, working with Eddie Aikau, Mark Cunningham and Brian Keaulana, and he set basic protocols for rescue after a wipeout in big surf. He drove the boat for Dave Kalama and Laird Hamilton, was part of the Strapped Crew, and worked as a stunt double in Point Break and Die Another Day.