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Frank Quirarte
A Mavericks photographer whom the San Francisco Chronicle, Stab and Punch report rescuing surfers there from a Jet Ski or WaveRunner, in pieces dated 2015 to 2021.
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Riding outside a race
Bruce Jenkins's column in the San Francisco Chronicle, updated on 1 January 2015, says Frank Quirarte routinely powers his Jet Ski into whitewater to rescue fallen surfers at Mavericks. Its photo captions say he uses personal watercraft to get close to big-wave surfers, that he stands on a watercraft to shoot from the channel at Mavericks, which puts him in a good position if he is called on to rescue surfers, and that, using his personal watercraft, he pulls a surfer the caption prints as Kohl Christenson to safety there. None of these is dated.
Sources: Chronicle 1 January 2015 Quirarte
The same column names him as one of three Jet Ski drivers racing through a narrow gap between waves to reach a surfer at Cortes Bank, a shoal some 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. It does not date the day.
Sources: Chronicle 1 January 2015 Quirarte
In the same column he says that when the first Mavericks contest came around, which the column dates to 1999, he was part of the water patrol. That is his own account, and the sentence does not say what craft the patrol used.
Sources: Chronicle 1 January 2015 Quirarte
Surfline's profile by Sam George, published on 19 November 2014, of which only the introduction and the photo captions are held, calls him a surf photographer turned surf safety expert and shows a ski being prepared at Pillar Point harbor. In a caption quoting him, he says that in 2010, the day after the Mavericks event, he pulled the surfer Shane Dorian onto his ski; that is his own account. Reading the profile's subject as the Chronicle's Quirarte rests on the full name and the Mavericks safety work, which is the archive's inference.
Sources: Surfline 19 November 2014 Quirarte
2017 · Likely
Stab's news item of 1 February 2017, by Jake Howard, says that the week before, during a northwest swell at Mavericks, Frank Quirarte, one of a handful of volunteers on the water patrol, was out on his ski splitting time between shooting photographs and rescues, and it names him first among the core volunteers. That he is the Chronicle's Quirarte is the archive's reading, from the name and the Mavericks water patrol.
2018 · Likely
Stab's news item of 21 January 2018 calls him a photographer and water safety operator and says that during that week's swell at Mavericks, when a set flipped a small boat, he responded with Todd Turner and the two got the people aboard out of the water and onto another boat. It reports, on the photographer Doug Acton's account, that debris from the boat jammed the intake of his ski, and says in its own words that for all intents and purposes the ski was destroyed. The tie to the Chronicle's Quirarte is the archive's reading, from the name and the Mavericks water patrol.
Sources: Stab 21 January 2018 Mavericks
2005 · Likely
Silas Valentino's profile in Punch Magazine, posted on 10 June 2021, calls him the leader of the Mavericks rescue team and says he has safeguarded surfers there for nearly 30 years from a WaveRunner jet ski, and that in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, he and a friend went on a rescue mission on jet skis through the flooded streets of New Orleans. The Chronicle's column of 2015 also places him in New Orleans after the hurricane in 2005, in a group that planned to obtain watercraft there; only Punch names jet skis. The tie between the two profiles is the archive's reading, from the name, the photographs and the Mavericks rescue work.
Sources: Punch 10 June 2021 Quirarte; Chronicle 1 January 2015 Quirarte
Organising the sport
Surfline's report of the Maverick's Ocean Safety Summit in Half Moon Bay, which prints no date and was captured by the Internet Archive on 20 October 2021, says the two-day summit was organised by Maverick's rescue team members Frank Quirarte and Eric W Nelson with the deputy harbormaster, and quotes him saying it is hard for them to spot a white board in the whitewater. That he is the Chronicle's Quirarte is the archive's reading, from the name and the Mavericks rescue team.
Sources: Surfline Mavericks safety summit
Elsewhere in the archive
What the archive has not read (3)
- Surfline's captions of November 2014 place him at Cortes Bank on a day they print as 12/21/13 and call the '13 Cortes mission, in a caption that shows him with a rescue helicopter and names no ski; the Chronicle's column does not date his drive there, so no year is given for it.
- His first Mavericks contest water patrol and the 2010 rescue rest on his own accounts, and no held document of 1999 or 2010 names him (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).
- No held result sheet or official list names him (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).
Documents cited on this page
- Chronicle 1 January 2015 Quirarte (web.archive.org): Frank Quirarte snaps shots of surfers, and saves them, too, by Bruce Jenkins (San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate, updated 1 January 2015; Wayback capture of 2 January 2015), San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate), 2015-01-01; editorial, medium. A newspaper columnist's profile of a Mavericks photographer: in the writer's and the captions' words he drives a Jet Ski or personal watercraft to reach and rescue surfers at Mavericks, and he was one of three Jet Ski drivers at a Cortes Bank rescue; in his own quoted words he was on the water patrol at the first Mavericks contest. Medium for the paper's own sentences; his quoted account supports only what he says. The held copy is abridged, and a sentence in it on a racing-tour post is not used.
- Surfline 19 November 2014 Quirarte (web.archive.org): Influencers: Frank Quirarte, by Sam George (Surfline, published 19 November 2014; Wayback capture of 2 October 2015), standfirst and photo captions, Surfline, 2014-11-19; editorial, medium. Only the standfirst and the photo captions of the profile are in the capture; the article body is not. Medium for the publisher's captions (a ski being prepared at Pillar Point harbor; Cortes Bank on 12/21/13); one caption is his own account of pulling a surfer onto his ski in 2010 and supports only what he says.
- Stab 1 February 2017 Mavericks patrol (stabmag.com): The Mavericks Volunteer Rescue Team Is Free, by Jake Howard (Stab, 1 February 2017), Stab, 2017-02-01; editorial, medium. A surf magazine's news item: the week before, Frank Quirarte was out on his ski at Mavericks as one of the volunteer water patrol, and it names the core volunteers. Medium. The held copy keeps part of the item.
- Stab 21 January 2018 Mavericks (stabmag.com): A Day Of Boat Slams And Mayhem At Mavericks (Stab, 21 January 2018), Stab, 2018-01-21; editorial, medium. A surf magazine's news item on a large swell at Mavericks that week: it calls Frank Quirarte a photographer and water safety operator who responded with Todd Turner when a small boat was flipped, and says his ski was destroyed; the detail of the jammed intake is the photographer Doug Acton's account. Medium. The archive holds the item in part.
- Punch 10 June 2021 Quirarte (punchmagazine.com): Surf + Rescue, by Silas Valentino (Punch Magazine, posted 10 June 2021), Punch Magazine, 2021-06-10; editorial, medium. A magazine profile: in the writer's words Frank Quirarte leads the Mavericks rescue team from a WaveRunner jet ski and in 2005 went on a rescue mission on jet skis in flooded New Orleans. Medium for those sentences; only they are copied.
- 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.
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