On Saturday 25th June, 2011, friends, family, and fellow watermen gathered at Mt.Irvine to pay Tribute to a ‘Risen’ SOULJAH, Scott Tucker. The traditional Surfer Paddle-out dates back to the 1920′s and was ironically made world-famous by Scott’s favorite surfer, 3x World Champion Andy Irons who had passed 8 months ago. This celebration of [...]
In keeping with our mandate to bring attention to Caribbean Waterman Legends, we recently caught up with Richard Parkinson after his winning of the first Annual Free Dive Spearfishing Tournament in Tobago. To anyone who knows Richard, and what he is capable of, it would be no surprise that he won the tournament. However, with adverse conditions [...]
The Trinidad and Tobago Game Fishing Association (TTGFA) has lost one of it’s founding members and former Secretary, Sid Johnson.
When he passed away due to illness on November 6th 2009 it came as a great shock to the Game Fishing fraternity in Trinidad and Tobago as Sid has been involved in many ways for the [...]
Captain Gerard “Frothy” De Silva, (Capt. Frothy, as he is known), started his love affair with the sea at the age of 6, and he would constantly plead with his mother to take him fishing in his tender years.
If Anthony Wilmot, better known as Billy Mystic, had not ever learned to swim or had never fallen in love with the ocean, his musical talent and accomplishments would have been enough to dub him a legitimate Caribbean Legend. During his 30+ years of playing reggae music as the leader of the world renowned band Mystic Revealers, he has rubbed elbows with the likes of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, and produced timeless classics like Album “Space and Time”.
HUGH ‘HJ’ GRANSAULL
Legendary Caribbean Watermen rarely ever get the recognition they deserve. Perhaps it’s because there aren’t sufficient lasting mediums to document their achievements and preserve them for forthcoming generations. During an interview with Hugh Gransaull last year, “HJ”, as he is affectionately known by his friends and family, mentioned that it had always been [...]
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