The winds blow from land to sea, rainfall hardly ever exceeds 10 millimetres (0.39 in) yearly and the climate is highly inhospitable. In the times before engine-powered ships and boats, it was potential to get ashore via the surf however inconceivable to launch from the shore. The solely way out was by going via a marsh tons of of miles lengthy and only accessible through a sizzling and arid desert.
Hamilton appeared as Kevin Costner's stunt double during the 1995 filming of Waterworld. Reportedly, Hamilton was almost lost at sea when his Kawasaki Jet Ski ran out of gasoline throughout a squall. He then drifted for hours before being rescued by Coast Guard off the Island of Maui. Hamilton commuted every day to the enclosed set between Maui and the Big Island by jet ski.
Laird Hamilton is a co-founder and co-creator of XPT Life or Extreme Performance Training, alongside together with his wife, Gabrielle Reece. In February 2008 Hamilton joined the board of directors of H2O Audio, a watersports music company in San Diego California.
Footage of Hamilton is used on the video for Dayvan Cowboy from Boards of Canada. In 2003, he was featured in Dana Brown's surf documentary Step Into Liquid. On January thirteen, 2010, Hamilton and wife Reece appeared as themselves on the episode "Gary Feels Tom Slipping Away" of the CBS television collection Gary Unmarried.
In 2008 Hamilton introduced his personal "Wonderwall" line of affordable clothes, offered via Steve & Barry's until that retailer shut down on the finish of January 2009. He has had lengthy-time sponsorship billabong skeleton surfing shirt from the French beachwear company Oxbow surfwear. Joann and Bill had a second son, Lyon, Laird's half-brother, who additionally turned a surfer. More than a thousand such vessels of varied sizes litter the coast, notably the Eduard Bohlen, Benguela Eagle, Otavi, Dunedin Star and Tong Taw. On the coast, the upwelling of the cold Benguela current offers rise to dense ocean fogs (called cassimbo by the Angolans) for a lot of the year.