Even though the formal Mavericks surf competition got scuttled this year, about a dozen well known big-wave surfers gathered yesterday to surf the break anyway, and one of them drowned. As the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports, 35-year-old Sion Milosky, an accomplished big-wave surfer who lived in Kauai, wiped out on a large wave (think: 60 feet), and then got held underwater by two consecutive waves at around 6:30 p.m.. more ›

24-year-old San Francisco resident Adrian Ruiz was killed by a tiger shark while surfing off the coast of Mexico yesterday, making this the second shark-related death in the past week. more ›