“Before John Severson, there was no ‘surf media,’ no ‘surf industry’ and no ‘surf culture’ — at least not in the way we understand it today,” SURFER editor Sam George wrote in 1999.

I rented John's house on Maui in the mid  1970's which gave me the opportunity  to surf  with he and his two teenage daughters in front of the house. What a fun guy. I idolized him since picking up my first SURFER with Rennie Yater on the cover.

R.I.P