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Perry Farrell
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Perry Farrell performing
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Billabong CEO Neil Fiske with his wife
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Chad DiNenna of Nixon and wife
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Quiksilver's Greg Healy and Shara Pike
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Linda Gibson and Rip Curl USA CEO Kelly Gibson
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Sisters Whitney and Stephanie Gilmore
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Curt Fry and Amuse Society's Mandy Fry
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Eric Crane of Electric with wife
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Andrea Meehan and Volcom's Kevin Meehan
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The Aguerre family
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Luke Egan of Depactus and wife
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Dennis and Crystal Jarvis of Spyder Surf
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Bruce Beach and Myf Bradbury of Depactus
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Kevin Bailey of Vans
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Tom and Deni Brown of 17th Street and Henry Cosio of Vans with wife
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Shaun and Katie Moody and Rachael and Courtney Kincaid of O'Neill
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Stephanie Gilmore gives Perry Farrell a hug
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Tanya and Dylan Slater. They are expecting their first baby
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Taylor Whisenand of Quiksilver and wife
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Una and Ryan Baker
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Terry Strumpf of Spiritual Gangster and Crishana Haynes
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Volcom's Dutch Schultz and wife
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Adam Walker
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Carla and Shaun Tomson
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Hurley's Ryan Hurley and wife
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SIMA Environmental Fund Chairman Paul Naude
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Juliette Paskowitz
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Team Nixon - Mike Hoefer
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Mike Clements and Yvonne Clements
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Dianne Hitzel and Roark's Ryan Hitzel
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Lisa Li and Quiksilver's Ted Li
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Travis Ferrí© of What Youth
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Kelly Carter and Agenda's Mike Carter
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Rob Carter and O'Neill's Cedar Carter
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Sean Smith of SIMA and Charlie Setzler of Rusty
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Simon Dufour of Moss Adams with Daniel Neukomm and Josh Wellington of La Jolla Group
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Susie Lantz and Brent Lantz of Volcom
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Casey Fleming of O'Neill and wife
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Daniel Neukomm of La Jolla Group and attorney Greg Weisman
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Andrea Harvey and husband
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Kris Graff and Bob Graff of Graffy Inc.
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Cathey Curtis of Billabong and husband Todd Moore
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Cecilia and Santiago Aguerre
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Michael Marckx of Spy and son
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Billabong's Shannan and Sonia North
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Gary and Carolyn Ward
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Jim Kempton
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Megan Brunner of Nixon and husband
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Surf Expo's Ryan Nettleton
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SIMA's Sean Smith with Steve Casimiro of Adventure Journal and Joni Casimiro of Joni Design
The addition of rock stars and snappy speeches helped liven up this year’s Waterman’s Ball, the annual fundraiser for the SIMA Environmental Fund.
Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction, a founder of Lollapalooza and an avid surfer, received the Environmentalist of the Year award. He had one of the funniest acceptance speeches ever, and played a surprise set with Robert Trujillo of Metallica and Peter DiStefano of Porno for Pyros.
Waterman of the Year Stephanie Gilmore was charming and genuine during her speech, and added some excitement to the night by buying Robert Trujillo’s bass, a surprise addition to the live auction, for $10,000.
And the tribute to Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Doc Paskowitz was touching, inspiring and funny, too.
There was also a newsy element to the evening when SIMA announced that Rip Curl USA CEO Kelly Gibson is the next SIMA President, taking over for Doug Palladini, who held the position for six years following the passing of Dick Baker.
We have lots of photos from the evening above in our slide show.