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MALIK JOYEUX, SURFISTA TAHITIANO MUORE SURFANDO PIPELINE
IN MEMORY OF MALIK
E' On line una retrospettiva Video del surfista Tahitiano scomparso lo scorso dicembre mentre surfava Pipeleni, Hawaii.
Video by Deep Water Films
FILM: In Memory of Malik - A retrospective clip of respected and loved French Tahitian surfer Malik Joyeux.
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Malik Joyeux, Surfista di 25 anni, tahitiano, divenuto famoso nel 2003 per aver ottenuto il record dell'onda più grande cavalcata a Teahupoo, è scomparso venerdì 2 dicembre mentre surfava l'onda di Pipeline, sulla North Shore di Oahu (Hawaii), considerata una delle onde più difficili e mortali al mondo.
Le condizioni d'onda erano sui 6-8 piedi (circa 2,5 mt.), dopo una brutta caduta sul picco Malik non è riemerso mentre è subito riaffiorata la sua tavola spezzata in due. Immediatamente una ventina di surfisti si sono precipitati per cercare l'amico tahitiano di cui non c'era traccia. Il corpo di Malik è stato ritrovato un quarto d'ora più tardi circa 200 metri più a nord del picco di Pipeline, a Pupukea, ma i soccorsi sono risultati inutili.
I surfisti presenti hanno pregato per l'amico scomparso radunandosi in cerchio sulla spiaggia e tenendosi per mano, secondo la tipica tradizione hawaiana.
Grieving in Wake of Fatality at Pipeline
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 4 December, 2005 : - - The death of Malik Joyeux at Banzai Pipeline on Friday cast a pall along Oahu's North Shore. "Everybody around here, from surfers to lifeguards to friends of his … are really grieving right now," said Pat Kelly, a lifeguard lieutenant with Hawaii's Ocean Safety Division. "It just shows that this can happen to anybody."
Nobody knows exactly what happened to Joyeux in the moments after what witnesses described as a violent wipeout. He took off deep on one of the larger waves and the thick lip pounded the surfer as he was attempting a bottom turn. Its force broke Joyeux's board in two and tore his leash from his ankle.
He failed to surface and a widespread rescue attempt was launched by lifeguards, surfers and scores of people watching from the beach. Many of them swam out and drifted in the current, probing with their feet. About 10 minutes passed before one of them discovered Joyeux's body underwater, 200 yards east of the surf break.
Efforts to revive him failed. His death was the second this year at Pipeline. The other, in February, involved photographer Jon Mozo.
"All I know is that he was an insane brother," Raimana Van Bastolaer said of his close friend. Laird Hamilton described Joyeux as "a very positive and happy person, always stoked." Hamilton said he was not shocked that a top-caliber surfer had lost his life at Pipeline.
"It's a bone crusher," he said of a wave that jacks up so suddenly and steeply that surfers often get hung up on the face and are sent with the lip over the falls and onto the reef. "I saw guys carried out of Pipeline daily," Hamilton said.
"I saw one guy who had the top of his scalp torn off like a boiled egg after it's been cut with a knife. I've seen guys with broken arms, broken backs and even broken necks. I once went over and landed on my board and split my head open like it was tomahawked. Now with the crowds you have people putting themselves into more critical positions, going deeper and deeper, and other guys dropping in on you".
Joyeux's death has put a damper on the Pipeline Masters, the season-ending third leg of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, which begins Thursday. But the premier surfing contest of the season, celebrating its 35th anniversary, will go on as planned.
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