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Waimea Bay (geographical)
Dickie Cross and Woody Brown, were forced to paddle in at Waimea in a rapidly rising swell.
Woody Brown managed to make it to the beach. Dickie Cross disappeared, assumed drowned.

1957
Greg Noll and Mike Stange first to paddle out. Greg Noll 1st wave, Greg Noll and Pat Curren 1st big
wave. Others Mickey Munoz, Bing Copeland Del Cannon and Bob Bermell.
Reference Noll pages ??

Buzzy Trent, Waimea Bay, 1963.
Photograph : Dr. Don James
Surfing Magazine March 1984
Volume 20 Number 3 page 82

Unknown in free flight, Waimea Bay, circa 1963.
Cover Photograph by Don James
Surfing IllustratedApril-May 1964
Vol 2 number 2.

Eddie Aikau, Waimea Bay, circa 1964.
Photograph possibly by Don James
Life Magazine, April-May 1965 ?

Owl Chapman, Waimea Bay, circa 1971.
Photograph : Jeff Hornbaker
Surfer Magazine Vol 30 No. 10 1989, page 105.

Reno Abellira, Waimea Bay, 1974.
Smirnoff Contest - 1st Place.
Photograph : Jeff Devine

Surfing Magazine February 1980.
Volume 16 Number 2, page 58.

James Jones, Waimea Bay,
February 4, 1977.
Photograph : Dan Merkel
Surfing Magazine March 1984
Volume 20 Number 3
Centre Fold Out Poster

Brock Little, Waimea Bay, November 2, 1989.
Photograph : Uncredited

Surfing Magazine July 1990.
Volume 26 Number 7, page 27.