Behind surfing’s wall of silence, managers, sponsors, and the sport’s governing body knew Andy Irons had a problem. Now some of them are finally ready to talk about it.

Previously: “Last Drop” Melekian’s first Outsidereport on Irons, published in November 2010 just weeks after his death.

In 1998, at age 45, Ken Bradshaw surfed the tallest wave in recorded history.

On a surfing-obsessed family physician in San Francisco.