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Plenty of big wave surfers are paid bigger sums than Whippy and many have received more accolades, but few go harder than the roaming South Coast charger who has been known to redline it for 2000km to chase a swell that’s colliding with a field of submerged rock on the other side of Australia.     

Although restlessly focussed on putting himself in the way of every major swell that hits his targeted waves, Scott is also that classic kind of unassuming Australian character who performs seemingly impossible feats while preserving the gregarious countenance of a knock-about bloke.

The following is a cinematic look at his last year of chasing waves.