INTERNATIONAL NEWS - By now you've seen it. The 3x World Champ's yearlong quest for new adventure just culminated in one of the biggest scores imaginable on a recent strike mission.
Fanning and some friends (who remain anonymous for now) enjoyed endless spinning caverns at one of the best sand-bottom rights imaginable. While the location is very much undisclosed, rest assured that at this very moment several surfers with high clearance credentials (yeah, they're out there) are diving deep into dark corners of the web to uncover it.
For now, however, the rest of us will have to dream.
This score was made the old-fashioned way, on whispers and whims. It involved a lot of patience, persistence and the destruction of any paper trail. In today's hyper-connected world, surfers like Mick have to lie directly to the face of loved ones to pull this kind of stunt off. Any clues one can extract from the Rip Curl Search piece about the mission indicate that this wave is one that rarely breaks…but when it does, it's clearly machinelike.
But this is no machine. And that's the beauty of this find.
You may recall that this time last year the entire surfing spy network was searching for Kelly Slater's wave machine. It took less than a few weeks to dig it up. This wave, however, seems to be hiding in plain sight, along some tiny ribbon of beach that's probably been pondered, scanned, and even searched thousands of times.
Fortunately, mother nature has a way of covering her tracks. If the elements aren't in place it's almost impossible to know what's there, unless you're right there, right then, at ground level, as all the elements come together.
