Mark Foo
•Top: 1973 • Mark competing in the Southern Surfing Association‘s Christmas Contest at the P’cola Bch Pier
•Bottom: six years later on the North Shore
•Mark moved from Pensacola Beach to the North Shore in 1974. He quickly established himself as a surfer, and a voice of surfing through his talents as a surfer/business guy/promoter/local radio personality/surfing landlord – not to mention becoming a famous big wave surfer.
I’ve never met anyone who ate, drank, slept, and lived surfing like he did. He was 110% “in”, all the time.
He made the claim “if you want the ultimate thrill, you’ve got to be willing to pay the ultimate price”. And he did. He died while surfing Mavericks on Dec. 23rd, 1994.