Quinn Haber grew up by the beach in Pacific Palisades, California spending hot summer days in the surf, and nights in the club as the guitarist for SST punk band The Treacherous Jaywalkers. Surf travel started him on a sporadic career of photography and journalism.

When the band broke up in 1991, he headed north to Santa Cruz for an education and large, pumping winter surf. What began as a love of surfing led to an obsessive study of the sport’s culture and language. From Santa Cruz he moved to San Francisco looking for more action, which he found in heavy beatings and wide open barrels at Ocean Beach.

While in San Francisco he worked in publishing for a British book firm and made frequent surf trips to the Philippines. On one of those trips he met his wife, who he now lives with in Oahu, Hawaii. Currently, Quinn works for the state of Hawaii, helping children get free medical care.

He wrote Experience Pipeline as an endeavor to put a reader directly into the heart of surfing’s most treacherous and famous wave—Banzai Pipeline, the wave that all surfers know but that few will ever surf.