Tamayo Perry is believed to be the first high-profile surfer to die from a shark attack after his death in Hawaii aged 49.
A well-known Hawaii lifeguard who was killed in a shark attack while surfing off Oahu’s north shore was a former professional surfer with acting credits to his name, including a role in one of theTamayo Perry, 49, was killed Sunday near Goat Island, Shayne Enright of the Honolulu Emergency Services Department said in a statement.
Perry “was never like somebody that was going to contend for a world title,” Buckley said. “He was more of the type to just kind of hunt down big, crazy waves and have that documented.”“For a while, he was one of the top, top, top people out there,” Buckley added. “He got some of the craziest waves of his era. He was insanely respected by obviously everybody there and everybody around the world for what he did.
Emilia competed as a professional bodyboarder in Western Australia before moving to Hawaii when she was 18. She and Tamayo met when she was bodyboarding out to a Pipeline wave. Perry’s other passion was acting. He had several small roles credited to him by IMDB, including playing a buccaneer inin 2011. That same year, he appeared in an episode of the television seriesPerry in 2011’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.“When I’m not acting, I’m still quite a character, so there’s always a ton of fun to be had,” he said.
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