Cold Water Surfing with Pete Devries

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🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Professional surfer Pete Devries prefers the cold waters of his home, Tofino, B.C. for the waves and the solitude.

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0:00.0	Vancouver Island is an incredibly stunning place.
0:11.9	But it's not the first place that comes to mind for a surf trip.
0:16.1	The water up there is frigid.
0:17.7	I'm talking where a thick wetsuit all year round type of cold, like 5mm at least.
0:24.9	It's certainly not the kind of place you'd expect to find a thriving professional
0:28.9	surfer, like Pete DeVries.
0:32.2	Most pros spend their seasons in Hawaii, Australia, or even California.
0:38.1	But Pete has been surfing this cold water for decades.
0:42.3	He grew up into Fino.
0:43.6	It's a town on Vancouver Island that he loves.
0:47.6	He still lives there with his wife and son.
0:50.6	The chilly temperatures there mean he's often surfing by himself, and honestly, he prefers
0:56.3	it that way.
0:57.3	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living.
1:07.0	In 1999, when I was 19, I spent a wild week teaching surfing at one of the first all-woman
1:13.6	surf camps with surf diva into Fino.
1:16.7	It's a serene place with a surf experience unlike anything I'd ever experienced before.
1:23.0	The beaches were beautiful, but they're pretty empty.
1:26.5	It's not the easiest place to get to, but that means that Pete gets to spend a lot of
1:31.3	time actually catching waves and working on his craft.
1:35.5	His dedication and hard work have paid off.
1:38.5	Pete is the winner of nine consecutive Canadian men's surfing championships.
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