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Sea Fever completed in 2007- was a feature-length Irish surf documentary filmed over the course of two years between 2005 and 2007 to capture the mood of Irish surfing throughout the seasons. Sea Fever was an insight film into the surf culture that had developed in Ireland over the previous forty years. With dramatic footage from Ireland's giant wave 'Aileens' (Aill na Searrach) at the 700 feet Cliffs of Moher and close-up interviews with the troubadour surfers that brave these 40 - 50 foot waves to Kevin Cavey and the early pioneers of the 1960s & 70s with their rudimentary equipment and spirit of adventure, Sea Fever set out to capture the character and craic of Irish surfing. Sea Fever was Ken O'Sullivan's first production and was made with any form of funding. Sea Fever features archive of Irish surfing from the 1960s and 1970s shot on 8mm & 16mm film, including the 1972 European surf championships held in Lahinch Co. Clare featuring Kevin Cavey and a host of international surfers. Ken O'Sullivan revisited some of these men including Kevin and Cornish man Mike Wingfield of the British surf team thirty five years after the event to document their recollections of the early days of surfing both in Ireland and the UK and elicit their views on the evolution of Irish surfing and world class big wave wave chargers taking on fifty foot waves. Somewhat comic yet incredibly brave insights into the early efforts were provided by the Britton brothers about using woollen jerseys to try and keep warm, and Rod Bennet with rubber kitchen gloves for freezing winter waters, while also recounting the use 'hospital wax' from the shaping of prosthetic limbs, as surfboard wax with none being available to buy at that time! Sea Fever opens with Irish big wave pioneer John McCarthy talking about his first childhood love of surfing and fear of waves and the moment he acquired his first wetsuit allowing him to surf continually 'since then'. Easkey Britton second generation surfer from the famed Rossnowlagh Britton family, Ireland's first surf family shares her childhood surf experiences before moving on to talk about surfing the famed Teauphoo and then during production one of Ireland's giant wave at the Cliffs of Moher, 'Aileens'. The film moves on to reach a crescendo in September 2006 on the day Hurricane Gordon provided likely, the biggest surfed waves ever at the Cliffs of Moher at that point in time, in an event support by UK surf mag Carve and featuring Cornishman Da

