The winds blow from land to sea, rainfall hardly ever exceeds 10 millimetres (0.39 in) yearly and the local weather is extremely inhospitable. In the days before engine-powered ships and boats, it was attainable to get ashore by way of the surf however unimaginable to launch from the shore. The only method out was by going via a marsh hundreds of miles long and solely accessible via a hot and arid desert.
Hamilton appeared as Kevin Costner's stunt double in the course of the 1995 filming of Waterworld. Reportedly, Hamilton was almost misplaced at sea when his Kawasaki Jet Ski ran out of gas during a squall. He then drifted for hours before being rescued by Coast Guard off the Island of Maui. Hamilton commuted daily to the enclosed set between grateful dead surfing skeleton shirt 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 with his spouse, Gabrielle Reece. In February 2008 Hamilton joined the board of directors of H2O Audio, a watersports music firm 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 13, 2010, Hamilton and spouse Reece appeared as themselves on the episode "Gary Feels Tom Slipping Away" of the CBS television sequence Gary Unmarried.
In 2008 Hamilton introduced his own "Wonderwall" line of affordable clothes, bought via Steve & Barry's until that retailer shut down on the finish of January 2009. He has had lengthy-time sponsorship 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 various sizes litter the coast, notably the Eduard Bohlen, Benguela Eagle, Otavi, Dunedin Star and Tong Taw. On the coast, the upwelling of the chilly Benguela current gives rise to dense ocean fogs (referred to as cassimbo by the Angolans) for much of the year.