OccyChild star at sixteen, ranked third in the world at seventeen, winner of the Pipeline Masters at nineteen Mark Occhilupo looked set to sweep all before him with a radical, spontaneous, irresistible brand of surfing. Yet a spiralling descent into drug abuse and depression snuffed his flame out prematurely when he quit the pro tour at just twenty two. Faltered comebacks, spectacular bursts of free surfing and manic breakdowns followed, as the surfing