World champion and goofy footer Mark "Occy" Occhilupo is a true surf legend. He's also Sterling Spencer's favorite surfer. So what happens when two of surfing's most quirky dudes take a video camera, ...

“We all know Oc surfs more than probably anyone,” said JS Industries head honcho, Jason Stevenson. “I’ll see him out at two-foot D-Bah on his 6’3” Raging Bull. I just wanted to make something with a ...

Mark Occhilupo’s story often crescendos with his famed 1999 world title campaign, a comeback for the ages from couch potato to walking Australian surf icon at age 33. But Occy hasn’t stalled out in ...

Twenty-five years ago, the request rang out in Portuguese over Rio de Janeiro’s Barra Beach. “Could the new world champion please make his way to the sand?” Officials scrambled madly to find one of ...

When most people make a list of the greatest power surfers, Mark Occhilupo is definitely on it. If they’ve made a list that doesn’t include him, that list is incomplete. Occy’s not an air guy. He’s a ...

Grahamstown — Legendary Australian World Championship Tour (WCT) surfer Mark Occhilupo made use of a lay day during the Billabong Pro surfing competition to christen his son at his favourite surf ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

These days, the 53-year-old is pretty comfortable delving into his darkest chapters – the bouts of depression that saw him abandon a world tour while at his peak and his destructive stretches of ...