Ross Clarke-Jones

Ross Clarke-Jones, known as Dark Bones and RCJ, is an Australian big wave surfer born on 6 June 1966. He comes from Terrigal on the Central Coast of New South Wales and now lives on Phillip Island. With his tow-in partner Tony Ray he has taken on some of the biggest waves ever attempted, including the giant Outside Log Cabins on the north shore of Oahu on 28 January 1998, where faces ran from fifty to eighty feet. He is a regular invitee to the Quiksilver Eddie Aikau Big Wave contest at Waimea Bay and won it in 2000 and 2001, the first person who was not Hawaiian to do so. He is known for surfing Shipsterns Bluff, Cow Bombie and Pedra Branca. The 2012 documentary Storm Surfers 3D followed him and Tom Carroll across tow-in rides in the Great Southern Ocean, and in 2019 he competed in the sixth season of Australian Survivor, leaving on day 28 with a fractured ankle to finish thirteenth.