Gerry Lopez on Rell Sunn’s Lifetime Achievement Award

When it came time for someone to accept the SHACC Lifetime Achievement for the late Rell Sunn at the 2018 Women Making Waves Ohana Gala, lifelong friend Gerry Lopez humbly obliged. “Her beauty was far beyond the skin, it was as deep as any ocean,” he said in his tender tribute. The two grew up together in the water in Hawaii, and ultimately, both changed the course of surfing in their own unique and respective ways, but this night belonged to Rell.