Brendan McAloon is a reformed journalist and television producer. He established Rip Curl’s Search TV series, co-produced Mick Fanning’s award-winning biopic surf film Mick, Myself & Eugene, and was a television producer for professional surfing’s World Championship Tour. He followed his 2009 surf/travel memoir Deep Water: Travel stories & the search for the perfect wave by editing the journals of the original surf explorer Peter Troy (To the Four Corners of the World) in 2011. He lives on Victoria’s west coast with his wife and two children.