Around The Corner | The Search

Join Dillon Perillo, Jacob Willcox and Ry Craike on a Rip Curl Search trip into uncharted oceans, chasing unknown slabs and charting their course as they go.

It’s 5am on an unusually cool morning sometime in late May. Ry Craike stretches his legs from beneath the captain’s helm of an unnamed vessel. He stands up and opens the door to the starboard deck and looks out to sea, seeing nothing but reflective pink-and-blue ocean ahead as the sun rises from behind.

He was trying to call his dad when he saw this thing come out of the deep water – the thing ended up being a massive tiger shark, and it was swimming circles around our boat. – Dillon Perillo

They’ve been heading north for four days now in this remote and vast landscape of nothingness, and this is just the beginning. This is, The Search.

“It was the captain’s idea to drive north,” says Dillon Perillo, who occupied the boat alongside Ry, Jacob Willcox and the crew. “The original plan was to head to a chain of islands pretty near where we had embarked, but by the time we were ready to start the journey we had heard whispers that other people were headed in the same direction. Then the captain, who is also the owner of the boat, proposed we do something different.

Featuring: Dillon Perillo and Jacob Willcox.

Welcome to Rip Curl’s latest episode of #TheSearch, Around The Corner.