Pat O'Connell

Patrick O'Connell (born 1971) is a retired professional surfer who competed in the top ranks of the Association of Surfing Professionals, now called the World Surf League, before retiring to work in the surfwear industry and later as a top executive with the World Surf League. He is best known to the general public as one of two surfers, along with Robert Wingnut Weaver, in Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer II, a 1994 film that followed up Brown's landmark 1966 surf documentary The Endless Summer. This entry rests on the lead section of his English Wikipedia article, which gives his birth year, his competitive and business careers and the film appearance.