lifestyle SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2016 Mark Healey of Hawaii takes a spill down the face of a large wave in the second heat of The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau surf contest at Waimea Bay located on the north shore of the island of Oahu in Hawaii. — AP Surfers get once-in-a-lifetime 60 foot swells off Hawaii here are two sayings that come along with the Eddie bay, producing some waves that organizers estimate were 60 humanity, and he understood the power of relationships. That Aikau died. Aikau big-wave surfing invitational: “The bay calls the feet tall. is just the spirit Ramon has tapped into.” As a lifeguard, Eddie Aikau is said to have never had a fatal- Tday” and “Eddie would go.” For the first time in six years, Clyde Aikau is the only competitor to surf in all eight previ- Navarro came to the North Shore and worked his way into ity while on duty. When the surf was too big for most in the bay - and event organizers - gave the nod Thursday as a ous competitions and is the oldest at 66 to compete in this the surfing community by building mud brick ovens and sell- Waimea Bay and the crowds cleared out, Aikau would grab his powerful and sustained swell produced huge surf on Oahu’s year’s event. Thursday will be his last time surfing in the con- ing empanadas to beachgoers, Wilmott said. Navarro surfed in surfboard and take on the biggest waves around. Ultimately, North Shore. Eddie, a famed lifeguard and big-wave surfer test, he said. Clyde said the event isn’t really about competi- the first heat of the morning on Thursday, and despite only however, Aikau gave his life to the ocean in a final attempt to who once protected these shores, most certainly would have tion, fame or money. It’s about honoring his brother’s legacy catching one wave out of a possible four, earning him a mere save others. The 31-year-old Aikau was part of a team that was gone. Before the sun came up over the horseshoe-shaped of helping others and his passion for the ocean. “We are hum- 5 points out of 100, Navarro said he was just happy to be attempting to trace the route of their Polynesian ancestors Waimea Bay, organizers huddled together to make the final bled and privileged,” he said. One competitor, Ramon Navarro, involved in the event. “This is my dream,” Navarro said after from Hawaii to Tahiti aboard the traditional Hokulea canoe in call on the event, which has only run nine times in its 31-year the son of a fisherman from south Chile, embodies Eddie’s drying off from his hour-long session. “I can die happy now.” 1978. The vessel encountered rough seas and capsized. Aikau history. spirit, said event spokeswoman and longtime Aikau family Looking forward to his second heat of the day, Navarro took his surfboard and paddled away for help. He was never Eddie Aikua’s brother, Clyde, announced to a large crowd friend Jodi Wilmott. said he hoped that Eddie would “look at (him) and send (him) seen again, though the rest of the crew was eventually res- early Thursday morning that his brother’s namesake surfing Navarro is a “very unassuming, a very humble character,” some good waves.” “I’m going to try my best and enjoy it, I’m cued.— AP contest was on. “I’ve been riding Waimea Bay for over 40 years, Wilmott said. “He has a higher vision.” In 2009, when Navarro just happy to be here,” he added. Local Hawaii surfer John and today has to be one of the best days I’ve ever seen,” Aikau was invited to his first Eddie competition, he awed the crowd John Florence won Thursday’s event, catching four massive said. “It is a go!” he added as the crowd came alive with whis- when he rode the biggest wave of the day, scoring a perfect waves for a total score of over 300 points. Australia’s Ross tles, cheers and applause. They got what they hoped for as 100 on the monster breaker that towered over him. “Eddie was Clarke-Jones took second, and Hawaii’s Shane Dorian finished huge sets of monster waves crashed onto the outer reef of the a higher-vision guy, too,” Wilmott said. “He had loftier goals for third. The competition began in 1984, six years after Eddie Professional surfer Ramon Navarro (left) makes the drop on a wave while professional surfer Jamie Mitchell loses control and wipes out at Waimea Bay Professional surfer Jeremy Flores flashes a ‘shaka’ sign after exiting the water at Waimea in Waimea, Hawaii. —AFP Bay in Waimea, Hawaii. Home Centre receives Service Hero ‘Gods of Egypt’ Film Review Award for superior customer service t a certain point in “Gods of Egypt,” an extrava- young thief who dreams of freeing Horus from his self- the living, or the enormous proto Starship Enterprise ome Centre, the largest home retailer in number of votes. 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