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By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
Maverick's, the notoriously powerful big-wave surfing destination a half-mile beyond the Central California coast, has claimed another life.
Sion Milosky, an emerging star in a thrilling but dangerous sport, died Wednesday evening after a violent wipeout. The married father of two, who lived on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, was 35.
He becomes the second surfer to have died at Maverick's. The other was legendary big-wave rider Mark Foo, also from Hawaii, who drowned after a wipeout in 1994. After Foo's death, surfers began to keep a closer watch on one another from aboard jet-powered personal watercraft.
Conditions, however, were sketchy on Wednesday afternoon, with bumpy storm surf and wave faces measuring to about 50 feet. About a dozen surfers were out. Three people reportedly rode the perimeter on jet-skis.
Milosky, after a long afternoon of surfing, caught a large set wave at dusk. He was knocked from his board by the wave's cascading lip and held underwater by successive waves, according to witnesses.
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