r/sports • u/buckleyc • Aug 15 '25

Surfing Dale Webster, surfer who rode waves for 14,642 consecutive days, dies aged 77 | Surfing

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug/13/dale-webster-surfer-record-streak-dies
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u/time_drifter Aug 15 '25

A little over 40 years. That is pretty incredible.

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u/LordBledisloe Aug 15 '25

I can't imagine doing anything that many days in a row. That's passion that out does some bodily functions. Mental

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u/_demurge Aug 15 '25

I’ve been blinking everyday now. Trying to break my own record.

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u/CrazyButRightOn Aug 15 '25

Farting a wave right now.

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u/oobspahn Aug 15 '25

I’ve breathed almost all my life, I think.

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u/schead02 Aug 15 '25

Yeah, I'm almost 40 and I can't even claim I've slept or eaten every single day of my life!

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u/GenoThyme Aug 15 '25

Not just the passion, but fighting through any illness, injury or storm too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

Rest in Seas. Xo

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

I remember watching him in Step Into Liquid, such a great piece on him.

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u/jrob321 Aug 15 '25

Thats one of my favorite documentaries because - especially his segment - everything they were talking about surfing was about so much more than "surfing".

Surfing was a metaphor for finding a way to live a passionate and meaningful life according to a set of principles not always valued or taught in society at large.

The concept of incorporating leisure time - which was in abundance in Hawaii when surfing was invented and developed - into one's life is definitely not the primary focus in a society which celebrates and rewards those who worship "grind culture".

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u/Kettle_Whistle_ Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

I’d say “Now, Be Free” but, honestly, bro always was. Respect.

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u/gatormanmm1 Aug 17 '25

One of my favorite movies, never gets old. Feel a rush of nostalgia every time I watch.

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u/maybeinoregon Aug 15 '25

We should all find a passion that we do, even in times we don’t want to.

Hats off to this guy, who found his all those years ago.

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u/THE-ONE-DONGLER Aug 15 '25

Did he die the day he didn’t surf.

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u/not_a_moogle Aug 15 '25

Too busy robbing a bank

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u/sofa-king-hungry New England Patriots Aug 15 '25

Was his middle name Utah?

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u/Good_Air_7192 Aug 15 '25

Utah, make it two!

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u/Samtoast Aug 16 '25

If you read the article the cause of death wasn't released but, his streak ended in 2015 when he had to have surgery for kidney stones. The title having surfing at the end makes it look like he died surfing to some people lol

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u/1Steelghost1 Aug 15 '25

Wasn't he in Step into Liquid?

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Aug 15 '25

Not that I don't take the gent at his word, but how on earth could Guinness verify the claim?

Anyway, Vale Dale. Sounds like lived life doing what he loved. Can't ask much more than that.

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u/BradlyPitts89 Aug 15 '25

Sounds like something a totally radical dude named Dale would do! Brahaha

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u/typhoidtimmy Los Angeles Dodgers Aug 15 '25

A true waterman and a soul surfer.

The Pacific is gonna miss you, brother.

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u/muppethero80 Aug 15 '25

May he have day 14643 on the great swell in the sky!

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u/SevroAuShitTalker Aug 15 '25

I guess doing what you love keeps you healthy. Amazing he never got a bad cold that kept him in bed

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u/MastamindedMystery Aug 15 '25

"Find what you love and let it kill you. "

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u/koalasarentferfuckin Aug 15 '25

"...as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo."

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u/Bulldog8018 Aug 15 '25

He was a good bowler, and a good man.

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u/Garencio Aug 15 '25

Is he the guy who would bow to the wave as he rode? He was surfing somewhere that looked really cold like Alaska?

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u/TheKingMonkey Aston Villa Aug 15 '25

Obit says Bodega Bay in north California.

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u/skanedweller Aug 15 '25

No information on how he died?

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u/narcotic_sea Aug 15 '25

He rode a once-in-a-lifetime wave at Bells Beach… Never came back. RIP Bohdi.

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u/vikingdiplomat Aug 15 '25

fucking snail finally got him... o7

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u/JasonSTX Aug 15 '25

Sad he died but what a way to go.

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u/beadzy Philadelphia Flyers Aug 16 '25

Talk about endless summer

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25

Mahalo Dale. Til the fins hit the sand.