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Podcast: The Surfer's Journal presents Soundings with Jamie Brisick
Episode: Mark Healey
Description: Born in 1981 on Oahu, Mark Healey started surfing at age three, turned pro by the time he was 17, and made his name in heavy, scary waves, first in Hawaii, then around the world. But big-wave surfing was only part of it. An avid diver, Healey won the World Cup of Spearfishing in La Paz, Mexico, in 2008. And then there were sharks. In 2011, he traveled to Mexico's Guadalupe Island to dive with great whites for a Nat Geo TV shoot. Outside magazine called him "the greatest athlete you've never heard of." Recently, he founded Healey Water Operations, synthesizing all his...