There are relatively few legends in the world of surfing. Compared to other sports — or activities or pastimes or whatever you choose to call surfing — the list is short. Everyone, however, will agree that Mick Fanning is a legend. Three times a world champ. The only person ever to endure a shark attack broadcast live during a surf contest. All around good guy. Yup, Mick’s a legend.
Craig Halstead knows this. Halstead, a man who lives and breathes surfing, has filmed most of the good swells on the Gold Coast since 2003. Over the years, nearly all of the world’s best surfers have passed by his lens, and Mick Fanning is one of them. Halstead has a little over 400 Fanning clips, spanning the years between 2008 to August 2021, and he’s squeezed the best of them into the montage you see above.
See more clips from Halstead on his YouTube channel, SurfonMars.
