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The threat of those waves is not baseless: big-wave waterman Mark Foo drowned at California’s Mavericks in 1994, while Hawaii local Todd Chesser died surfing a huge swell on an outer reef off the North Shore in 1997.
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Amy Woodyatt,
CNN Money,
26 June 2025
The school’s successful teaching formula—refined over 25 years—is rooted in founder Chris Keet’s experience as a competitive surfer and lifelong waterman.
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Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
15 Apr. 2025
Marron was a teacher, a community spiritual leader and waterman, his wife told KSWB.
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Daniella Segura,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Feb. 2025
Kurt Hoffman is a La Jolla businessman and waterman.
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Kurt Hoffman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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Amy Woodyatt,
CNN Money,
26 June 2025
The school’s successful teaching formula—refined over 25 years—is rooted in founder Chris Keet’s experience as a competitive surfer and lifelong waterman.
—
Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
15 Apr. 2025
Marron was a teacher, a community spiritual leader and waterman, his wife told KSWB.
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Daniella Segura,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Feb. 2025
Kurt Hoffman is a La Jolla businessman and waterman.
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Kurt Hoffman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waterman
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There’s just one problem — every state in the union has its own rules governing how many rods an angler can fish at the same time.
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Just an angler, a fishing pole and maybe thousands of dollars worth of sonar equipment offering an exact image of what that walleye or bass is doing in the watery depths below.
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But in recent weeks, the fish have wreaked havoc for fishermen off the coast of Crete and several other Greek islands, chomping through nets.
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Another fisherman comes down the bank.
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Depredation occurs when a shark steals an angler’s catch off their line, and Florida’s fishers are tired of it.
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The fin-monitoring program worked because fishers participated voluntarily.
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“Waterman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waterman. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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