Mikala Jones, a professional surfer known for his photography and videos filmed from inside the tight tubes of breaking waves, has died after an accident while he was surfing in Indonesia, his family said.
This week, the online surfing world mourned a member of its tribe and circulated some of his most popular works, including a photograph that showed him peering through the barrel of a breaking wave as he rode it into an opening of sunlight.
In one of Mr. Jones’s last Instagram posts, he filmed himself standing up on a surfboard as the walls of a wave folded around him.
“Time to live,” he wrote.
Besides his wife and children, he said, surfing was “all I need.”
Persons:
Mikala Jones, John Jones, Jones’s, ”
Organizations:
Associated Press
Locations:
Indonesia, Sumatra