In mid-November, Ben Gravy completed a pretty epic surf trip. Seven Seas in Seven Days, as he called it, was just as it sounds: surf in seven seas over the course of seven days. A tall order, to be sure, but what a whirlwind it must have been. It started in Japan and, as you can see above, ended up in Norway.
“My brain just comes up with these challenges for myself,” Gravy said to Fansided.com. “I thought that this was pretty extravagant, pretty large scale, and pretty impossible. So I think it just kind of started coming together. I’m not exactly sure what sparked the initial idea, but it kind of grew off the 50 states thing. It took like months, literally months once Red Bull was like, ‘Yes, we’re doing this,’ it took me months of picking it up, putting it back down, to actually figure it out. And eventually, I came up with something and it was on the verge of possible.”
After Japan to surf the North Pacific, he boarded a flight bound for Bali and the Indian Ocean. From there, he went to Australia to surf the Southern Ocean and the South Pacific. Then he headed back to the U.S. to surf the southern Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico in Texas before going home to New Jersey for the North Atlantic. And finally, Norway and the Arctic Ocean.
What he found in Norway was pretty spectacular, too, but it looked a little grim when he first pulled up. In order to check off the seventh sea in seven days, however, he had to paddle out. “As long as we ride a wave right now,” he said from the car on day seven, “we fucking did it. I’m tripping right now.” But after as the day wore on, things picked up and the wave turned on.
“I can truly say it was the craziest week of my life,” Gravy said. Now it’s likely that he’ll need seven days to recover from one of the most epic surf trips anyone could do.
