Ace Cool Employee Bios

The Life And Times Of Ace Cool Big Wave Surfer
and all around Waterman...

Alec Cooke aka Ace Cool was born and raised near Brennecke's Beach on Kauai.
He learned to swim at the age of 3, when he fell into a swimming pool's deep end and swam to the shallow end by instinct. After telling his parents about it, they enrolled him in Red Cross swimming lessons. He was an avid pool and ocean swimmer from that point on. He began bodysurfing at the age of 4 and boardsurfing at the age of 5. He began competitive swimming training at the age of 6 and continued to swim competitively throughout high school and college. He also swam each weekend with wild dolphins off the south shore of Kauai. His father took him out to meet the dolphins in a small motorboat and he befriended them with buckets of fish and a whistle. Hence the nickname "the dolphin-boy of Kauai".

Ace Pumping Gas 1
By Carrie Cavalier

Ace Pumping Gas 2
By Carrie Cavalier

Ace Pumping Gas 3
By Carrie Cavalier

1978-1988.. Worked as a Surf Reporter on 98 Rock, KCCN, KHVH, NewsRadio 99, and several other stations. Initially for "SurferJoe" Teipel and then as he formed the "Surf News Network" I worked for them. including under "GQ" Gary Kewley. I also did radio ads on 98 Rock for

Hana Hideaway

Ace Headshot
By Carrie Cavalier

Ace does the dew
By Carrie Cavalier

Gotcha, Country Surf Shop and others. I was a part time D.J. on 98 Rock and I have M.C.ed and + co-M.C.ed many surfing and surfing related events then and since. I have been a Surf News writer for the North Shore News in
Haleiwa and their

Ace In Suit 1
By Carrie Cavalier

Ace In Suit 2
By Carrie Cavalier

Ace and Rev. Abraham Akaka

website @ northshorenews.com since 1982.
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I have done a lot of public speaking and TV and radio Interviews.
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I am the well-Known Big Wave Rider "Ace Cool" who

Big Wave Guns 1

Big Wave Guns 2

appears on the Postcard of
The Biggest Wave .which has sold 1/2 a millions copies a year in stores everywhere statewide.
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1974 Graduated Punahou School

1979 Graduated Hawaii Loa College

Big Wave Guns 3

Ace with
Richard Sterman

Meet Surf Duck

1979-81 U.H. Business School M.B.A. (pending ) a few classes

1986 Duplanty School of Real Estate I have current Real Estate License

Ace at
Backdoor Pipe 1
By Sean Davey

Ace at
Backdoor Pipe 2
By Sean Davey

Ace at Hammerheads
Photo by R.B.

I Speak Japanese and Spanish.

I would like very much to return to the Surf News Network part-time o full time. I am available immediately.

Ace's Yamaha 1100 Jet-ski on Maui waiting for Jaws to Break

R.B.at Jaws
Contest 2000
by Patrick Mcfeely 1

Big Wave Watch
At Weather Station

Currently living on North Shore, I still surf daily in the winter and am very in tune with the buoys, the national weather service, George Mason, Pat
Caldwell and surf forecasting in general. Long and short term.

Ace at Willis Bros Shaping Room Forging a Gun 1

Ace at Jaws Contest 2000
by Patrick McFeely

Ace at Outside Alligators
by Sylvan Cazenave

1994-2001
Along with Tow-In Surf Partner Ron Barron and other team-mates ....Alec
Cooke has been towing in to waves of
up to 20-30 foot plus with personal watercraft (Yamahas,

Ace at Willis Bros Shaping Room Forging a Gun 2	Artist John Costello and Ace in Hana	Ace Camping in Hana Caves	Kawasakis, Polaris and Seadoos) in every major swell. Ron and Ace towed 30 foot plus Puaena Point on "Big Wednesday", Jan.
	Polynesian Voyaging Society Gathering 2 Party at Dukes	Polynesian Voyaging Society Gathering 3	28th, 1998....one of the biggest days in modern surfing history. Ace and Ron also competed in the 1st ever Tow-In Surf Contest at Jaws on Maui (Dec. 26th, 2000). We got 8th place. We have towed Jaws on other days when it was 20 foot plus. You need a lifejacket out there!
Gail out with Mom Daughter Team	Limo Girls	Ace Santa	Extreme Jet-Ski TowSurfer and Jet Ski Driving Expert. Classroom trained by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary in

Ace at Manoa House Party

Party At Duke Waikiki

Ace at Manoa House Party 4

Safe Boating as preparation to join
the Coast Guard Auxiliary Jet-Ski Posse when and if it becomes active in
Hawaii Summer

R.B.at Himalayas
by Sean Davey

R.B.at Himalayas
by Sean Davey 2

R.B.at Jaws
Contest 2000
by Patrick Mcfeely 2

1997/Six Week Training Class at Mililani High School, Ken Bradshaw was my classmate

Ace Tandem Skydive Courtesy Air Tugie 1	Ace Tandem Skydive Courtesy Air Tugie 2	Surf Duck 1	Surf Duck 2
Surf Duck 3	Surf Duck 4	Surf Duck 5	Surf Duck 6
Surf Duck 7	Surf Duck 8	Surf Duck 9	Surf Duck 10

Contacts:
Alec Cooke (Ace Cool)
Box 957
Haleiwa, Hawaii 96712
Phone 808-641-7038 Pager/Voice Mail
(Leave a voice message or a page + the # sign)
Email: acecool@acecool.net

References:
Surfer Joe Teipel
Gary Kewley
Banzai Betty Depolito
Beau Hodge
Ryan "the Hawaiian" Fernandez
Jens Jensen
Nettie Jensen
Randy Rarick, ASP
Bernie Baker, ASP
Jack Shipley, ASP/HASA
Wendell Aoki, HASA
Reid Inouye, HPAC
Ron Valenciana, Editor/North Shore News
Mark Cunningham, Ocean Safety
Richard Sterman, Sterman Realty
Jim Dempsey, Dempsey West Realty
Todd Hoch, Pacific Century Trust
Linda Seyler, North Shore News Secty

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Punahou School/ 4th-12th Grade Elementary School...Age
Group Swimming...............................
JR. High......Age Group Swimming
9th Grade...JV Swimming
10th Grade....JV Swimming
11th Grade...Varsity Swimming
12th Grade...Varsity Swimming
(High School Personal Best
21.0 seconds 50 Freestyle Sprint)
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Bodysurfed Brennecke's, Kauai since age 4 years old.....Bodysurfed Sandy
Beach and Makapuu since moving to Oahu in 4th grade...Bodysurfed
Pipeline since 9th grade.....Surfed the North Shore since High
School....Surfed 20 foot plus North Shore since the age of
18....................
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Bodysurfed competitively since High School....Surfed Competitively since
College....Surfed Professionally in the '80s...Surfed in the 1st Eddie
Aikau Contest in 1986.................................
Made the finals most of the time in Bodysurfing contests at Makapuu,
Sandy Beach, Point Panic and Pipeline. Have won at Makapuu and Sandy
Beach.
2000....1st place Pipeline Bodysurfing Classic Handboarding Expression
Event
1999......4th place Pipeline BodySurfing
Classic............................................
1998...5th Place Pipeline Bodysurfing
Classic............................................
1997....3rd Place Pipeline BodySurfing
Classic...........................................
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City+County Lifeguard in Waikiki from 1986-1988.....over the course of
12 years of home ownership at Jocko's near Chun's Reef (where there are no
lifeguard towers)...I pulled close to 100 people of all ages and sizes
from all kinds of drowning conditions in all kinds of surf. Most of
these people would have been in serious trouble and might have drowned
had I not intervened when I did..........................................................
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I have also taught literally thousands of people how to surf in front
of my house and elsewhere....1st for North Shore Lodging....then for Eco-Surf
Tours... then for Willis Brothers....then North Shore Surfing School...and have
been considering becoming a Waikiki BeachBoy (part time)
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I speak fluent Spanish, decent Japanese, and some Brazilian
(Portuguese)............
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1994-2001..............
Along with Tow-In Surf Partner Ron Barron and other team-mates ....Alec
Cooke has been towing in to waves of
up to 20-30 foot plus with personal watercraft (Yamahas, Kawasakis,
Polaris and Seadoos) in every major swell.
Ron and Ace towed 30 foot plus Puaena Point on "Big Wednesday", Jan.
28th, 1998....one of the biggest days in modern
surfing history. Ace and Ron also competed in the 1st ever Tow-In Surf
Contest at Jaws on Maui (Dec. 26th, 2000). We got 8th place. We have
towed
Jaws on other days when it was 20 foot plus. You need a lifejacket out
there!
Extreme Jet-Ski TowSurfer and Jet Ski Driving Expert. Classroom trained
by the U.S. CoastGuard Auxiliary in Safe Boating as preparation to join
the Coast Guard Auxiliary Jet-Ski Posse when and if it becomes active in
Hawaii (Summer 1997/Six Week Training Class at Mililani High School, Ken
Bradshaw was my classmate)
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Have competed in the Waikiki Roughwater Swim almost every year since
High School.......
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1993-1995............
#1 Amateur Shortboard Surfer in Senior Men's Division of Hawaii Amateur
Surfing Associaion for 3 years in a row
#3 Amateur Shortboard Surfer in HASA Open Men's Division for 3 years in
a row
HASA "sportsman of the year"...1994
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Have made several Channel Crossings on a Jet Ski between Oahu-Molokai
and Molokai-Oahu and also Maui-Molokai
and Molokai-Maui. Crossed as a pace boat on a jet-ski for Ron Barron in
the Molokai to Oahu "Kanaka i Kaika" canoe race 3x...rode there from
Maui or Oahu alone. I prefer channel crossings alone.
It is good for the soul. I always take etra gas, an EPRB, fins,
life-jacket, etc...
Most recently (alone) I delivered a jet-ski to Laird Hamilton on Maui on
March 10th and 11th, 2001 for use in the movie "Liquid"
(Endless Summer #3). The winds were 30 knots plus. It took 5 hours from
Oahu to Molokai
and 5 hours from Molokai to Maui. Rough seas! Straight into the wind and
10 foot plus seas with huge white-caps. Good fun!
I had to refuel in the channel from gas tanks roped onto the bike!
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I was flown by Helicopter to outer reef
Pipeline (Log Cabins) in 1985 and caught a 35 footer! (See Postcard) In
1984, I was flown by Helicopter to Outside Makaha and caught a 35
footer. I surfed Kaena Point off a fishing boat in 1984. It was 25 foot
plus. I was out at Waimea Bay on Jan. 18th, 1985 with James Jones and
Mark Foo when the 48 footer closed out the Bay.
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I am scuba certified. I can free-dive to 100
feet. I have cliff dived 80 feet. I have bodysurfed 20 foot Pipeline
alone and surfed 30 foot Waimea alone.
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I would make a good City+County Lifeguard. Hopefully I will get to
Lifeguard on the North Shore in time.
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I passed the lifeguard trials in Sept. 2000
and in Feb.2001 and on Mar. 23rd 0f 2001. I'm stoked and ready to become
a lifeguard!
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