Surfing is a surface water sport in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward or deep face of a moving wave, which is usually carrying the surfer towards the shore.
 Waves suitable for surfing are primarily found in the ocean, but can also be found in lakes or in rivers in the form of a standing wave or tidal bore.
 However, surfers can also utilize artificial waves such as those from boat wakes and the waves created in artificial wave pools.
Matt Warshaw (Los Angeles, 1960) is a former professional surfer, former writer and editor at "Surfer" magazine (1984-1990), and the author of dozens of feature articles and large-format books on surfing culture and history.
 He is currently the curator of the online "Encyclopedia of Surfing" and "History of Surfing", each website based on expanded material from the archives assembled for their print companions.
 Born in Los Angeles and raised in Venice Beach and Manhattan Beach, at his competitive peak Warshaw was the second-ranked amateur in California and 43rd-ranked professional on the International Professional Surfers world tour (1982).
 After stints as a student at several Southern California community colleges and San Diego State University while still a competitive surfer, Warshaw earned a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley (1992).
 After finishing his degree at Berkeley, Warshaw briefly aspired to a career in academia, enrolling in the graduate program in History at UCLA.
 He quit after three weeks.
 He is famously quoted as saying "All I knew when I quit [graduate school at UCLA] was that I was going to make a living writing about surfing, and as a matter of vanity, I wanted to be the world's authority on it."
 Today he is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost historians of surfing, living up to a 2005 feature on his work that named him "the caretaker of surfing history."
A soul surfer (coined in the 1960s) is a surfer who surfs for the sheer pleasure of surfing.
 Although they may still enter in competitions, winning is not the soul surfer's main motive, since they scorn the commercialization of surfing.
 The term denotes a spirituality of surfing.
 As Brad Melekian put it in a 2005 article in "Surfer" magazine:
Mark Sheldon Foo (February 5, 1958 – December 23, 1994) was a professional surfer.
 Foo drowned while surfing at Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, California.
Stealing the Wave: The Epic Struggle Between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo (ISBN  ) is a book written by Andy Martin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2007 (ISBN  ).
 It tells the story of surfers Mark Foo and Ken Bradshaw battling for supremacy at Waimea Bay, on the North Shore of Hawaii, where some of the biggest waves in the world crash onto the shore.
Eric Geiselman (born March 9, 1988 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida) is a professional surfer from New Smyrna Beach Florida.
 Geiselman is well known for his athleticism and versatility as a progressive surfer in all wave conditions.
 Geiselman, now a popular freesurfer, was a competitive surfer in his early years, winning the Oakley Pro Junior in 2006, winning the prestigious 2007 Surfer Poll award for most radical maneuver, ranking #14 in Surfline’s 20 Under 20 in 2008, winning the 2012 Expression Session, and was featured on the cover of Transworld’s Surf Magazine that same year.
 In 2015 Geiselman was featured on the cover of Surfer Magazine, in which the prestigious publication declared, "Eric Geiselman has got it all.
 Style, barrel riding, small wave, big wave, air game, the list goes on."
 He has repeatedly been declared “one of the best freesurfers in the world,” by both Stab and Tracks magazines.
 in 2017, he was referenced on the final cover of Surfing Magazine and starred, with his brother, in the magazine's final film project, the eponymous "E. Geiselman."
 Surfer Films declared, "Eric Geiselman is absurdly talented.
 From skateboarding to guitar to golf, he can pick up just about anything and quickly do it well.
 He's a jack of all trades - and somehow - he also masters them."
Big wave surfing is a discipline within surfing in which experienced surfers paddle into or are towed onto waves which are at least 20 feet (6.2 m) high, on surf boards known as "guns" or towboards.
 Sizes of the board needed to successfully surf these waves vary by the size of the wave as well as the technique the surfer uses to reach the wave.
 A larger, longer board allows a rider to paddle fast enough to catch the wave and has the advantage of being more stable, but it also limits maneuverability and surfing speed.
 The current world No. 1 big wave rider is Makua Rothman .
A leg rope or leash is a urethane cord attached to the deck of a surfboard, down near the tail.
 A leg rope plug enables the leg rope to be attached here using a leg rope string.
 The other end of the leg rope is secured tightly around the surfer's ankle with a velcro fastening strap covered in neoprene to provide comfort for the user.
 The purpose of using a leg rope is to keep the surfboard attached to a surfer's ankle at a safe distance.
 Should the surfer fall while riding a wave, the surfboard will not be swept away, thus allowing the surfer to quickly recover his surfboard and return to the take-off zone.
 The leg rope was invented in the 1970s amidst controversy that it was a dangerous accessory.
 Initially, a minority of people expressed concern that if a surfer fell while riding a wave and wearing a leg rope, the surfboard may bounce back and hit the surfer causing serious injury.
 Although this can happen, most surfers today choose to use a leg rope while surfing as it is believed that leg ropes prevent more accidents than they cause.
In surfing, shoulder surfing refers to shoulder hopping.
 Shoulder hoppers do not take off on the critical part of the wave where there is a need for a high level of skill, but take off further down the line.
 They are often regarded as annoying by more experienced surfers because shoulder hoppers will sometimes drop in on a surfer already riding the wave – which breaches surfing etiquette of "first on wave (or, closest to the curl) has right of way".
 Southern California early eighties band the Surf Punks performed a song called "Shoulder Hopper" for their album "My Beach".
Sam George is an American professional surfer, writer, director and screenwriter.
 A former competitive surfer, in 1983 George became a contributing editor at "Surfing" magazine in San Clemente, California, later becoming the magazine's senior editor.
 His monthly column "Caught Inside" ran until 1990, when he left "Surfing" and began work at "Surfer" magazine.
 George worked at "Surfer" from 1990 to 1998, when he left the magazine to work on a book project and to help start and edit a free tabloid called "SurfNews".
 He returned to "Surfer" as executive editor in 2000, a position he held until 2005, when he left the magazine to concentrate on documentary film projects.
 George has traveled extensively throughout his career, having explored the coastlines of over 40 different countries and is credited with the discovery of new surf breaks in West Africa, the Andaman Islands and Madeira.
 Still very active in surfing, George continues to compete in standup paddle races and tandem events.

Question: Stealing the Wave told the story of the surfer who drowned while surfing at what location?
Answer: Mavericks, Half Moon Bay, California