The Big Juice: Epic Tales of Big Wave Surfing by John Long

Author:John Long [Long, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Surfing, v5
ISBN: 9780762769933
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Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2011-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

It's the night before Christmas Eve, and Jake, Katrin, and Ruffo are hanging out at Peter Davis Monterey home. It's a modest place, decorated with artifacts from a life on the water. Jake shows off a thirty-pound rock of jade his dad unearthed, a replica of Peter's grandfather's grandfather's fishing boat, and a palmsize fossilized shark tooth his dad found up in the mountains. "Dad should've had a museum," his eighteen-year-old son says. "If you liked something, he'd give it to you, even if he'd never met you."

Jake says Pete looked out for everyone, no matter how big or small the waves. "'Two feet to twenty, he always said," Jake says, recalling a day in 2002 when his dad pulled four tourists from the freezing waters off Carmel Beach. The fifth, a kid, died in Davis arms. Davi did time in 1998 on drug and firearms charges, but Ruffo says jail was a wake-up call. "We all do crazy shit," says Ruffo, who was busted in 2005 for selling meth. "But Pete paid his debt. He worked hard, fishing every day." He may have turned his life around, but there was another factor in Davis death. The toxicology report, issued on January 10, revealed that at the time of his death Davi had methamphetamines in his system at a level of 0.75 milligrams per liter-more than enough to make him intoxicated and potentially impair his ability to survive an accident in dangerous surf.

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