00:03Mysterious powers of the sea have captivated man since the beginning.
00:10Riding the biggest surf on the planet is no part-time job.
00:13It's life revolving, requiring utmost commitment, practice, and discipline.
00:19An iron-willed way of life.
00:21Big Wave surfers have aspirations so motivating, nothing becomes obstacle enough to thwart the pursuit.
00:29Two such devotees of this life are Trevor Carlson from California, now residing on the North Shore of Oahu,
00:35and Will Scudon, a Hawaii-born Irishman raised and living in Long Island, New York.
00:42We wait all year long for these flurries of swells, and occasionally you just happen to have two weeks of
00:48crazy waves all over the world,
00:50and if you can get from one place to the next, you can surf 50-foot waves somewhere every day
00:54or every other day.
00:59I'm from Hermosa Beach, California. I live on the North Shore of Oahu.
01:04The North Shore was the place that I could move to out of high school.
01:08I could go and I could surf the biggest waves, the most consistently, and I could live that lifestyle.
01:14Did odd jobs for a while and got a job in sales that now changed my life.
01:17I'm a roofing salesman, and it works perfectly for the kind of schedule that I have.
01:23I can't RSVP for anything in my life. If there's a swell, you know, sometimes I have to leave on
01:28a moment's notice.
01:29Now I've been able to support my entire childhood dream of chasing waves.
01:32On a roof like this, we'd be looking for hail damage if there was a hailstorm.
01:37In general, I'd be looking for shingles getting ripped off the roof.
01:40I did that for a couple years, and I was able to make enough money to support the next couple
01:44years of traveling.
01:45With his responsibilities in check, the outcome is self-reliance.
01:50Trevor is now able to chase his dream of competing anywhere in the world on 12 hours' notice.
01:56Very important job.
02:00Anyways, for now I'm Challenge,
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