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Drake Stanley

Called a personal watercraft rescue operator at the 2016 Titans of Mavericks contest, reported towing surfers clear of a shark on his ski in March 2019, and named a regular course marshal at IJSBA-sanctioned events.

At a glance

Role
Rider and organiser
On the record
2 years, from 2016 to 2019
Titles on the record
none read off a held results document yet
  1. The early years, in print, 1981 to 1993
  2. The makers and their machines, 1985 to 2005
  3. Noise, safety and federal rules, 1996 to 2002
  4. The rule book years, 2002 to 2018 (this page's records)
  5. Three rule books, 2021 to 2026

The eras this page's records fall in are drawn solid; the others are hollow.

How we know: Each bar runs the years printed on that era's panel, and which eras a page falls in is the archive's grouping of its records, not the length of anyone's career.

Years 2016 to 2019, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact and hollow for a year printed above none. 2016 2019
  • a year printed above a fact on this page
  • a year printed above no fact

Printed above the facts, 2016 and 2019. Printed above none, 2017 and 2018. 3 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact on this page, one box a year.

How we know: the year printed above each fact below.

  • Confirmed 0

  • Likely 5

  • Contested 0

The grade word on each fact on this page, counted. It grades how firmly the documents tie each fact to this person, not the person.

How we know: the word printed above each fact below, counted on this page only.

Riding outside a race

2016 · Likely

Three photo captions on the San Francisco Chronicle's report of the Titans of Mavericks contest in Half Moon Bay, a page updated on Friday 12 February 2016, call Drake Stanley a personal watercraft rescue operator and show him preparing his equipment at Pillar Point Harbor, checking in with his team by radio and heading out toward the break ahead of the contest. His captions print the date as Friday, Feb. 12, 2015; the page and its other captions date the contest Friday 12 February 2016, which the archive takes as the day.

Sources: Chronicle 12 February 2016 Titans

2019 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's post of 3 April 2019 says that on 24 March 2019 he went out at Mavericks on his jet ski to run safety for a small group of surfers, and that when a great white shark appeared he put his craft between it and a surfer and then towed the surfers to safety, holding on to the ski and its rescue sled. It calls him a surfer who sometimes runs water safety on his ski, and says he told local media about the shark. That he is the Chronicle's rescue operator is the archive's reading, from the name and the Mavericks water safety work.

Sources: WCJ 3 April 2019 Stanley Mavericks

Likely

Surfline's report of the Maverick's Ocean Safety Summit in Half Moon Bay, which prints no date and was captured on 20 October 2021, shows him in a caption as a member of the water patrol practising with a firefighter how to move a surfer from a board onto a ski and on to the harbor patrol boat, and in another watching a surfer at Mavericks. The tie to the rescue operator of the other documents rests on the name and the Mavericks water patrol, which is the archive's inference.

Sources: Surfline Mavericks safety summit

Organising the sport

Likely

A news post of the International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA) dated 29 March 2019 calls him a regular course marshal at the World Finals and several other IJSBA-sanctioned events, says the association also hires him to provide rescue assistance at Mavericks, and says he moved a group of surfers there out of harm's way after a shark was seen, pointing for the day to an article in a San Francisco online newspaper, at an sfgate.com address. The post dates neither the marshal work nor the day.

Sources: IJSBA post 2019 course marshal

Likely

The Watercraft Journal's post of 18 December 2023 on surf rescue by personal watercraft calls him a Maverick's Rescue Team member and a long-time course marshal familiar to many in PWC racing, and relays, from an article on OZPWC, his remark that the work needs someone who both understands ocean dynamics and holds medical licences. The remark is his own; the post points back to its 2019 report of his Mavericks rescue.

Sources: WCJ 18 December 2023 rescue operators

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (2)

  • The article the IJSBA post points to for the March 2019 day is not held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).
  • No held World Finals staff list or result document names him as a course marshal in a given year (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).

Documents cited on this page

  • Chronicle 12 February 2016 Titans (web.archive.org): Mavericks surfers call early conditions 'treacherous' (San Francisco Chronicle staff, SFGate, updated 12 February 2016; Wayback capture of 12 February 2016), photo captions, San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate), 2016-02-12; editorial, medium. A newspaper's report of the Titans of Mavericks contest, updated Friday 12 February 2016. Three photo captions call Drake Stanley a personal watercraft rescue operator heading out to the break and preparing his equipment; they print the date Friday, Feb. 12, 2015, while the page and its other captions date the contest Friday 12 February 2016. Medium. Not all of the report is held.
  • WCJ 3 April 2019 Stanley Mavericks (watercraftjournal.com): Jet Skier Saves Surfers from Great White Patrolling Lineup at Mavericks (The Watercraft Journal, 3 April 2019), The Watercraft Journal, 2019-04-03; enthusiast media, medium. A watercraft magazine's post: on 24 March 2019 Drake Stanley was on his jet ski at Mavericks running safety, and towed a group of surfers away from a shark on the ski and its rescue sled; it says he told local media about it. Medium; his own estimate of the shark is not copied or used.
  • Surfline Mavericks safety summit (web.archive.org): Five Takeaways from the Maverick's Safety Summit, by David Sjostedt (Surfline; no printed date; Wayback capture of 20 October 2021), Surfline; editorial, medium. A surf-news report of an Ocean Safety Summit in Half Moon Bay held "last Thursday and Friday"; the page prints no date and was captured on 20 October 2021. It says Frank Quirarte and Eric W Nelson organised it, and its captions show Drake Stanley of the water patrol practising a transfer from a board onto a ski. Medium. First-aid instructions are not copied.
  • IJSBA post 2019 course marshal (ijsba.com): IJSBA Course Marshal Helps Mavericks Surfers Avoid Great White Shark (IJSBA news post dated 29 March 2019), International Jet Sports Boating Association (ijsba.com), 2019-03-29; sanctioning body, medium. The association's news post: Drake Stanley is a regular course marshal at the World Finals and other IJSBA-sanctioned events, is hired to provide rescue assistance at Mavericks, and moved a group of surfers out of harm's way there; it points to a San Francisco Chronicle article for the day. Medium: the body's own word for its officials, a second-hand account of the Mavericks day, and no date for it.
  • WCJ 18 December 2023 rescue operators (watercraftjournal.com): Video: Big Surf PWC Rescue Operators a Breed Apart (The Watercraft Journal, 18 December 2023), The Watercraft Journal, 2023-12-18; enthusiast media, medium. A watercraft magazine's post on surf rescue on personal watercraft: it calls Drake Stanley a Maverick's Rescue Team member and a long-time course marshal known in PWC racing, and relays his remark from an OZPWC article. Medium for the magazine's description; the remark is his own.
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