Two-times world champion Tom Carroll has been a core member of the Storm Surfers team since the beginning, taking on big waves with best mate Ross Clarke-Jones in South Africa, Japan, Hawaii and around Australia.

Carroll is regarded as one of the greatest surfers of all time – a powerful rider of waves, strong and fearless. Born on the 29th of November, 1961, in Newport, New South Wales, he won the Australian Junior Title in 1978, the Pro Juniors in 1977 and 1980, the 1983 and 1984 ASP World Tour, and the 1987 Pipe Masters. He became the first surfing millionaire after signing a contract with Quiksilver in 1989.

Carroll first went to the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, in 1978 and immediately took a liking to the large powerful surf. Armed with raw courage, athleticism, and a stocky, muscular frame, his powerful and stylish attack of Pipeline and Sunset Beach in Hawaii made surfers redefine the parameters of radical surfing. He is without peer when it comes to critically late takeoffs on giant waves, and his North Shore performances remain the benchmark by which all others are measured. His surfing objective has always been to surprise and excite, to revolutionise and delight. There is no standing still. No U-turns. His style is uncompromising.

Of big wave surfing, Carroll says, “Well I see it as another reason to get into the water. We are now discovering another side to our environment. New breaks are popping up all over as a direct result of tow-in mobility. This plays into the core of a surfers mind…pure adventure!!”