{"id":22289,"date":"2011-03-17T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22289"},"modified":"2011-03-17T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:51:31","slug":"sion-milosky-dies-surfing-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22289","title":{"rendered":"Sion Milosky Dies Surfing Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ba-Sion_Miolsky_0503163932_part6-1.jpg','popup','width=370,height=246,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ba-Sion_Miolsky_0503163932_part6-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ba-Sion_Miolsky_0503163932_part6-1-tm.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Ba-Sion Miolsky 0503163932 Part6-1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Sad news from Mavericks. Hawaiian big wave surfer <strong>Sion Milosky<\/strong>, 35, reportedly drowned at approximately 6 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2011, while surfing the Northern California big wave spot, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/03\/17\/BADN1IDO44.DTL&amp;tsp=1\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He went down the face of the wave. He made a bottom turn and he totally made the wave, but the water caught up to him and it just kind of engulfed him and raced him down,&#8221; said the surfer, who did not wish to be identified because he had taken the day off from work but did tell his employers that he would be surfing. . . &#8220;The last image I have of him was of him standing on his board as the whitewater was kind of engulfing him,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mikosky&#8217;s body was reportedly found by <strong>Nathan Fletcher<\/strong> near the\u00a0Pillar Point Harbor mouth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Milosky was pronounced dead at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.setoncoastside.org\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Seton Coastside Hospital<\/a><\/strong> in Moss Beach. He leaves behind a wife and two daughters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Milosky, described by <strong><em>Transworld Surf<\/em><\/strong> as &#8220;one of (if not the hardest) charging surfers in the world)&#8221; was featured on a recent cover of <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/surf.transworld.net\/1000126679\/features\/big-wave-surfer-sion-milosky-passes-away-at-mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Surf Magazine&#8217;s Tales From The North Shore issue<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Our thoughts are with Milosky&#8217;s friends and particularly with his wife and daughters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22289#more-22289\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a little more background on Milosky<\/a><\/strong> and his getting into one of the biggest waves ever paddled into (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abstractlines.tv\/\">Abstractlines.TV<\/a><\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfersjournal.com\/journal_entry\/sion-milosky-rip\">The Surfer&#8217;s Journal<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2011\/03\/17\/BADN1IDO44.DTL&amp;tsp=1\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_17630387\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/surf.transworld.net\/1000126679\/features\/big-wave-surfer-sion-milosky-passes-away-at-mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Surf<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8975988\">Sion Milosky Biggest Wave Ever Paddled into<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1507979\">abstractlines.tv<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news from Mavericks. Hawaiian big wave surfer Sion Milosky, 35, reportedly drowned at approximately 6 PM Wednesday, March 16, 2011, while surfing the Northern California big wave spot, according to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle. &#8220;He went down the face of the wave. He made a bottom turn and he totally made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22289"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22302,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions\/22302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}