[1] Moving to California with his American mother, he attended Lincoln Junior High School in Santa Monica.
His best result was semi-finalist in the José Cuervo classic at big Sunset, Hawaii, in the same year.
While he never made the top 100 in the professional rankings, he gained a reputation as "the most persistent and committed performer on the world circuit...a hero of never-say-die optimism.
His death may have come about in the wake of his relationship with a dancer at the Femme Nu club in Honolulu, by the name of Lola.
This theory is advanced by (Dr) Andy Martin in his book, Surf, Sweat and Tears: the Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst.