When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.

Frosty Hesson: As for the rest, all I will say is... the ones who push the limits, discover the limits sometimes push back.
Frosty Hesson: We all come from the sea, but we are not all of the sea. Those of us who are, we children of the tides, must return to it again and again, until the day we don't come back leaving only that which was touched along the way.
Brenda Hesson: There are all kinds of sons. Some are born to you, some just occur to you.
Sonny: Paddle, paddle, paddle, little grom.