Ryan 'Ringa' McKinnon

Shark Island is one of the best waves in the world for high performance bodyboarding and surfing and easily one of the most dangerous.

Picture riding the line in an 8 foot wave with the lip pitching 2 feet wider than its height! When you take off at the peak, you run

down hill toward the infamous end bowl known as 'SURGE'. Looking down, water is draining off the reef so fast, you are skimming across razor sharp reef pondering your life insurance policies for loved ones.

If you come out of this spitting foaming monster you're a hero and the crowd goes berserk and that ride becomes a memory you will never forget. If you don't come out, you can be a dead hero and Sutherland hospital is only 6 minutes ambulance drive down the road. I've timed bleeding relentlessly into the ambo's hand you.

That ride can be an expensive 6 minute tour as you decide, half unconscious, whether it was worth it!!!