Watch days of endless perfection blur into weeks of mindless gouges and deep pits. Get down and dirty with a band of the world’s best surfers as they turn their backs on society.
Filmed in the wilds of the Pacific and Indian oceans, Australia, Hawaii, USA & remote tropical islands. See Tom, Frankie, Davo & Byron charge huge previously unsurfed barrels.
Before the Inter-web-a-net, the only way to experience The Search was visiting your local newsagent and getting a copy of the latest surf mag, flipping it over to mind-surf waves you’d only dream of in the Search ads. But how did it come about?
In the 90’s, cinematographer Sonny Miller teamed up with Tom Curren and Rip Curl to make a series of surf films based on The Search… The partnership between surfer and cinematographer remains one of the great connections in surfing.
In the late ’80s, and with a vision for the company well established, Brian and Claw were trying to articulate what it meant to be part of Rip Curl.