Aran
Name: Aran Pitter
Age: 36yrs
Job: Self Employed - Tape/Optical drive repairs.
Years Surfing: 12 years
Habitat: Penarth
Boards: 2
Quiver: A dark blue 6'8 swallow tail retro shape + a yellow and white, Stewart Longboard for small days.
Local Break: Formerly Lossiemouth, Scotland but now it's the Porthcawl area.
Places Surfed: Have surfed all over the UK, Hebrides, Orkneys, Eire, France, USA, Falklands, South Africa, India, Acension Island, Sri Lanka, Portugal.
Favourite Surf Films:Morning Of The Earth. I don't care much for professional surfing - so I don't have a favourite surfer or anything like that.
Worst Wipeout: Snapping my leash at The Point, Brimms Ness on a 6-8ft day and having to swim back in across the reef.
Worst Surfing Habit: Having memory relapses!
Best Surfing Experience: Best surf ever was at Thurso on a 4-5ft day at 3am last Summer.
Weirdest Surfing Experience: First person to surf Saunders Island in the South Atlantic - I was dropped off by helicopter into the line-up. I also saw a shark take a Pelican in the line-up at Coco Beach, Florida which was pretty scary!
Other Interests: Painting, photography, spear fishing, mountain biking, going on surf trips in the van, playing guitar, volunteer on the local lifeboat crew.