Surf History Needs Saving Before It Disappears

In 2014, Derek Hoffmann was filming the Survivor TV show in Nicaragua when he received news that his good friend and long-time collaborator, Sonny Miller, had died. It would have been a seismic event in his life in any case. The pair had spent five years travelling together, filming on Rip Curl’s Search program in the early 1990s. Miller’s films, The Search, The Search 2, and Searching for Tom Curren, were just some of the iconic films that came out of the pair's time together. Sonny would shoot the land footage...