The winds blow from land to sea, rainfall hardly ever exceeds 10 millimetres (zero.39 in) yearly and the local weather is very inhospitable. In the times earlier than engine-powered ships and boats, it was potential to get ashore by way of the surf but impossible to launch from the shore. The solely means out was by going via a marsh lots of of miles long and solely accessible through a scorching and arid desert.
Hamilton appeared as Kevin Costner's stunt double during the 1995 filming of Waterworld. Reportedly, Hamilton was almost misplaced at sea when his Kawasaki Jet Ski ran out of gas during a squall. He then drifted for hours before being rescued by Coast Guard off the Island of Maui. Hamilton commuted day by day to the enclosed set between Maui and the Big Island by jet ski.
Laird Hamilton is a co-founder and co-creator of XPT Life or Extreme Performance Training, along with his spouse, Gabrielle Reece. In February 2008 Hamilton joined the board of directors of H2O Audio, a watersports music company in San Diego California.
Footage of Hamilton is used on the video for Dayvan Cowboy from Boards of Canada. In 2003, he was featured in Dana Brown's surf documentary Step Into Liquid. On January thirteen, 2010, Hamilton and spouse Reece appeared as themselves on the episode "Gary Feels Tom Slipping Away" of the CBS tv collection Gary Unmarried.
In 2008 Hamilton announced his personal "Wonderwall" line of reasonably priced clothes, sold by way of Steve & Barry's till that retailer shut down on the finish of January 2009. He has had lengthy-time surfing skeleton shirt sponsorship from the French beachwear firm Oxbow surfwear. Joann and Bill had a second son, Lyon, Laird's half-brother, who also became a surfer. More than a thousand such vessels of various sizes litter the coast, notably the Eduard Bohlen, Benguela Eagle, Otavi, Dunedin Star and Tong Taw. On the coast, the upwelling of the chilly Benguela current provides rise to dense ocean fogs (known as cassimbo by the Angolans) for a lot of the 12 months.