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Sion Milosky (35) died while surfing at Mavericks in rough conditions
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Published: Mar 25, 2011 @ 6:49 PM
Sion Milosky (35)
Date:
Mar 16, 2011
Cause of Death:
Surfing Incident
Location:
Mavericks, California
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Sion Milosky was always in search of the biggest waves to surf. The Hawaiian native found those waves on Wednesday at the Mavericks surf break north of Half Moon Bay, but the swells were just too overwhelming.
Milosky, 35, was killed at about 6 p.m., said a fellow surfer who witnessed the incident.
Milosky had caught at least six waves before the accident, the surfer said. About a dozen surfers and three people on Jet Skis were out on the water at the time, he said.
Milosky was pronounced dead at Seton Coastside Hospital in Moss Beach. The San Mateo County coroner will determine the cause of death.
Milosky, who lived in Haleiwa, Hawaii, leaves behind a wife and two daughters.
"I love being out on the ocean, not just the freedom that we get just being out there," Milosky told abstractlines.tv in November. "I would love to spend the next couple years searching and, like, maybe trying to really catch the biggest wave. That's like an insane feeling."
He said he wanted to "have fun surfing while I'm still young."
Milosky was named the North Shore Underground Surfer of the Year last month. He used some of the $25,000 prize to fly to Northern California on Sunday.
Mavericks is world-renowned for its big waves, which attract champion surfers for competitions during years in which conditions are right. The three-month window for this year's contest closed Feb. 28 without the event being held.
Milosky is not the first surfer to die at Mavericks. In 1994, surfing superstar Mark Foo of Hawaii drowned there.
On Jan. 21, Jacob Trette, a 30-year-old surfer from Southern California, was found unconscious in the water after a wipeout and spent two days in a medically induced coma at Stanford Hospital. He has since recovered.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/17/BADN1IDO44.DTL#ixzz1HH0alojO
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