:59:01
...to the clouds moved in,
it got dark...
:59:05
...the wind came up
and it was just, you know...
:59:08
...like we lost a great warrior.
:59:11
One of our surfers,
one of our own, was gone.
:59:18
To have that winter when
Mark Foo passed away, that was...
:59:21
That was a heavy hit
to everybody.
:59:22
That was a heavy hit
to everybody.
:59:26
What added to the shock of Foo's
death were its circumstances.
:59:29
An innocuous wipeout
on a less-than-death-defying wave...
:59:33
... in the middle
of a crowded lineup.
:59:35
I think he fell on his stomach,
knocked the wind out of himself...
:59:39
...and was fatigued from the flight
the night before, you know.
:59:42
I think he got caught
on the bottom.
:59:45
The reason I think his leg rope
got caught in the rocks...
:59:48
...is that on the next wave...
:59:50
...Brock Little
and Mike Parsons wipe out.
:59:58
Parsons comes up,
and Brock was behind him.
1:00:03
In later interviews, Parsons said:
1:00:06
"I felt Brock trying
to get to the surface."
1:00:10
But what he didn't realize
at the time...
1:00:13
...Brock was up and, you know...
1:00:15
...it was Foo trying to get
to the surface.
1:00:18
Which kind of...
1:00:19
It kind of confirms that he was being
held down by something.
1:00:27
I went and examined
his body, actually.
1:00:30
There really wasn't
any discernible injury.
1:00:33
He had a slight scratch
on his forehead.
1:00:38
His countenance, actually...
1:00:41
...was not that of one
who had sort of struggled...
1:00:44
...or who had been in anguish.
1:00:49
I felt, surfing at Mavericks
the years prior to that...
1:00:52
...that someone would die.
I didn't think it would be Mark Foo...
1:00:56
...but somebody who didn't
know what they were in for.
1:00:59
Mark Foo was this guy who was
larger than life to us, you know.