Surfing legend Dale Webster has died at the age of 76.
The California native died on Saturday in Rohnert Park, his family told the New York Times.
No cause of death has been announced but Webster’s younger brother, Randy, revealed he had been struggling with health issues in recent years.
Webster set the world record for most consecutive days of surfing in February 2004, when he amassed 10,407 in a row.
He began the challenge in September 1975 in Bodega Bay and had racked up 14,642 consecutive days when he finally had to stop 40 years later in October 2015 because of a minor medical procedure.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Webster surfed at least three waves to shore every day.
Surfing legend and world record holder Dale Webster has died at the age of 76, his family said
Webster (pictured with daughter Margo) finally set the world record for most consecutive days of surfing in February 2004
He first had the idea during a week of 15-foot waves in September 1975. ‘I surfed all seven days, and then I thought, “Let me see if I can keep this going,”‘ Webster told The New York Times in 2000.
Webster had to wear a wet suit all year round because of the freezing temperatures in the water around Bodega Bay.
Shark attacks are often frequent there, too, and Webster once recalled how he came across a 20-foot great white once.
His commitment to his daily surf was so strong that Webster would go out in tropical conditions, while he was sick and even once with a kidney stone, before swiftly going to hospital.
Webster was in a 2003 surfing documentary titled ‘Step into Liquid’, in which he said he wanted to break the world record.
Webster’s wife, Kaye, died of cancer in 2008. As well as Randy, Webster is survived by his daughter, Margo, and two grandsons.
