One of the things I noticed was that he and his wife were inseparable and she said "how many big wave surfers do you know that travel with their family?" Then in the last episode, no family. He's in Nazare with a broken foot wondering if he's going to go anyway and she's in Hawaii with the kids.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Don't know if would necessarily read into the family situation as the series ends as Covid is prevalent and throwing everything off. Hard to tell , but it did seem odd to end it after detailed early episodes ; seemed it could have gone on few more episodes if financing and family were there. Or maybe he got tired ; I guess spent over a decade chasing that place ....