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Last Drop | Outside Online. WHEN THREE- TIME world surfing champion Andy Irons was found dead on Tuesday, November 2, in a Dallas hotel room, the news reverberated far beyond the sport's core of devoted fans and followers.
The second was the date of crucial midterm elections throughout the United States, but the most frequent Google search that day was for a person who had nothing to do with politics: Andy Irons. His passing was covered by hundreds of media outlets all over the planet, a clear measure of the impact Irons had during his amazing athletic career. It wasn't as clear what had killed him. Two days before his death, Irons, 3. World Tour contest near Isabela, Puerto Rico, electing to fly home to Kauai, Hawaii, to be with his wife, Lyndie, who was eight months pregnant with their first child—a boy. During a layover at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport on the morning of November 1, Irons skipped his connecting flight to Honolulu and instead checked in to DFW's Grand Hyatt hotel, crashing in his room.
He didn't respond to wake- up calls the next morning, and Hyatt employees, worried that something was wrong, entered the room and discovered his lifeless body in bed. Irons's family, together with his primary sponsor, Billabong, quickly released a statement saying that the surfer had "reportedly been battling with dengue fever," a mosquito- borne disease they said he'd picked up at the Association of Surfing Professionals' October stop in Peniche, Portugal. From the outset, though, the dengue- fever explanation seemed unlikely as the sole culprit. Several surfers came down with the flu after Portugal, but no medical evidence was presented that Irons had dengue, which is fatal to only 1 percent of the people it afflicts.
I've had dengue fever," says one professional surfer who knew Irons. You don't die from it unless you're in a Third World country."What killed Irons is still unknown, and in the aftermath of his death, there was nothing to go on other than hints that he'd been taking prescription medications in his final hours. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner performed an autopsy on November 3 but didn't state a cause of death, pending a toxicology report that isn't expected until early December. When police searched Irons's hotel room, they found two prescription bottles labeled as the generic forms of the anti- anxiety drug Xanax and the sleep aid Ambien. And a report in the Honolulu Star- Advertiser quoted a medical examiner as saying that the prescription drug methadone—used to treat addiction to heroin and opiate- based pharmaceuticals like Oxy. Contin, and given more rarely for pain—had also been found inside the Ambien bottle.
A spokesperson for the examiner's office denied this comment, but the Star- Advertiser stood by its report. NONE OF THESE FACTS add up to anything definite, and the cause of Irons's death won't be known until medical officials issue their findings.
But this much is now clear: Irons had battled with alcohol- and drug- abuse issues throughout his adult life, and on at least one occasion nearly died as a result, during a 1. Indonesia. As Outside has learned through interviews with dozens of friends, colleagues, and surf- industry professionals who were close to Irons, his problems were common knowledge in the insular world of pro surfing, but they were kept under wraps by an unspoken but understood code of public silence. After Irons's death, several of these people decided it was time for the surf world to face facts.
Still, fearing reprisal, a few sources requested anonymity. Many people confirmed Irons's drug and alcohol abuse, though when it came to narcotics, nobody could say precisely what he took or how often. Most sources described a mix of prescription and recreational drugs, noting that, while they never saw him consume them, their effects were obvious.
But if Irons practiced discretion, he ignored moderation. On July 2. 4, 1. 99. Bumi Minang hotel, in Padang, Indonesia."He basically died on us, more than once," said Art Brewer, the 5. Irons and a half- dozen pros on the 1.
Mentawais, an Indonesian island chain. Twelve days after Irons's death, Brewer agreed to meet at his studio in Dana Point, California, to tell his story publicly for the first time. From the outset of this interview, he was careful to point out that he didn't see Irons ingest anything other than alcohol. But whatever was in his system, Irons had consumed too much of it, lapsing into a state of unconsciousness during which he appeared to stop breathing or have a pulse for a three- minute period."It was Andy's 2. Brewer, who has known Irons's family for 4. Irons and the surfing crew had returned to port in Padang from the Mentawais, and Andy "started out drinking.
I saw half a quart of Jack Daniel's that had been drunk." Brewer drifted off to his room, but at 1. P. M. he was roused by a surfer who said he had to come quickly: Irons was in trouble. I went to the room," said Brewer, "and Andy was blue."Brewer was told that Irons had consumed a second fifth of Jack Daniel's, passed out, and stopped breathing.
So they stripped him down and threw him into a cold shower. They threw ice on him. He wasn't responding, and he was getting bluer and bluer."One of the surfers administered CPR, which got Irons breathing again, and the group took him to a small local hospital, where he was given oxygen. Then he went flatline," said Brewer. He just dropped on us again. I think this happened three to five times total." The first hospital wasn't equipped to provide critical care, so the group took him to another, which was also improperly equipped, before landing at a facility that could treat him."They got him into ICU," said Brewer. He'd gone flatline again.
They paddled him. He came back up and, somewhere in between that and when we were outside the ICU, he went into a coma. And then one of his lungs collapsed. It was shocking."For six hours, Brewer and some of the surfers waited outside the ICU.
Finally, at three or four in the morning," he said, "Andy comes around, they get his lung reinflated, and he comes out of a coma." The next day, Brewer was able to convince doctors to release Irons so the group could make their scheduled flight to Singapore—where he received additional treatment—and then home. Unfortunately, the experience didn't seem to change Irons's behavior. A week later, Brewer said, at a party in the L. A. area held by Surfer magazine to celebrate its annual readers' poll, Irons went over the top with his drinking again. What really pissed me off is that he was so fucked up at the Surfer Poll Awards," he said. I couldn't believe he hadn't mellowed out. It made me wonder how he could go that hard and have a near- death experience—or a death experience—and then come back and push the envelope again."The Indonesia crew never told their story, but in the wake of Irons's death, Brewer and others felt the time had come.
I'm honorable as far as keeping my mouth shut about things that are basically none of my business," said Brewer, who got a blessing from Andy's brother, Bruce, another top professional surfer, to discuss the episode. But this one came so close to me.
I could have lost one of my friends' children. Then who's at fault?"ANDY IRONS GREW UP in Hanalei, Kauai, the north- shore town populated by locals and the people who run Kauai's tourism industry. His father, Phil, a carpenter and surfer and one of nine children, had moved to Hawaii from California in 1. Andy and Bruce, who is 1. Andy, spent most of their childhood competing with friends and cousins for the island's perfect waves. Both brothers eventually surfed professionally, but it was Andy who broke out in 1.
HIC Pipeline Pro, on nearby Oahu, at age 1. A few months later, still relatively unknown, Irons showed that it wasn’t a fluke by winning another pro event—this time at Tahiti's deadly Teahupoo. Irons was obviously a major talent, and over the years he earned a loyal following for his go- big style.
He was the most fearless surfer at some of the world's heaviest breaks, often riding deep inside the tube at dangerous spots like Pipeline and Teahupoo. But he was still skilled enough at riding small waves to win at every stop on the World Tour. No other surfer offered such a complete package—except Kelly Slater, holder of a record ten surfing world championships. But by the time Irons joined the elite ranks of the ASP World Tour, in 1. The tour, a judged ten- event global road trip for the sport’s best competitors, includes plenty of downtime, and Irons made the most of it. He also finished 3. Rumor was that he was riding the party train too hard," says Matt Warshaw, author of The History of Surfing, an exhaustive chronicle about the sport.
Where college freshmen had frat parties, Andy had money to burn and groupies at every stop. As World Tour competitor Taj Burrow put it in a recent promotional video for Billabong: "Everywhere we go, it's their biggest night of the year. You can't help but get involved."Off the tour, Irons ran with the Wolf Pack, a fearsome group of Kauai surfers who enforced localism at their home breaks—often with their fists. Early on, Andy didn't have handlers," says Chris Mauro, a former editor of Surfer. He had his crew."By the 2. World Tour, Irons had signed a sponsorship deal with Australian clothing company Billabong for a reported $6.
Far from mellowing, he achieved antihero status, and many fans loved him for it. Andy was loud and in your face," says former World Tour surfer Shea Lopez, a close friend. He was the rock star of surfing."Like other hard- charging celebrities, Irons didn't necessarily see himself growing old. He wanted to die young," surfer Koby Abberton recently told Australia's Stab magazine.
He knew it. Everyone knew it."In 2. Kelly Slater returned to competition after a three- year hiatus, the assumption was that he would mop up. Far from it. Irons beat Slater and claimed the world title that year. Then he did it again in 2.