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Pupule
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 Posted - 02/10/2005 : 05:53:45 AM
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Sad news. I think Jon Mozo did the photography for Na Palapalai's CDs, and I recall seeing his work in shops on O`ahu.
Photographer Mozo drowns on North Shore
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/09/br/br05p.html
Advertiser Staff
Well-known surf photographer Jon Mozo drowned on the North Shore today.
Lifeguards said Mozo drowned at 2 p.m. at Ehukai Beach Park.
Bodyboarders alerted lifeguards that a swimmer was in trouble, officials said. An off-duty lifeguard who was in the water at the time dived down and found a man with "massive head injuries."
The off-duty lifeguard and other lifeguards who responded brought Mozo ashore but were unable to revive him. He was pronounced dead at Kahuku Hospital.
On June 10, 1993, Mozo was bitten by a tiger shark while surfing at Goats, a spot on the North Shore. Friends put tourniquets on his ankles to prevent him from bleeding to death. He received more than 100 stitches and was back surfing in two months.
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Aloha
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Posted - 02/22/2005 : 5:58:52 PM
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Surf Photographer John Mozo's Life Celebrated
Hundreds of people gathered at Jonathan Wayne Mozo's favorite beach yesterday to bid farewell to the well-known surf photographer.1,500 attended his funeral and burial Saturday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in La'ie. Yesterday's celebration was to give people the chance to unite with Mozo's spirit in the place where he loved to surf, courted and married his wife, and brought his children to play.
Mozo, 33, died Feb. 9 after suffering severe head injuries while photographing waves and surfers at Banzai Pipeline. Many of the people Jon touched were at the beach memorial with leis, flowers, outrigger canoes and surfboards. After a brief prayer, the family was taken to Jon Mozo's favorite surf break in a double-hull canoe draped in maile leis. About 100 others paddled out with them where they formed a circle, said a prayer and tossed their garlands into the water. Several hundred more stayed on the shore tossing flowers and leis. A couple began chanting in Hawaiian as the canoe headed out to sea to send him off to the "other side,"
This man captured the beauty of Hawaii, and it's people, to share the Aloha in his heart and his home. He and his outstanding work will be missed!
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Always Aloha, Lea
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