Watch Now: Mick Fanning, Gabe Medina and Mason Ho Make for an All Time Cast on the Latest Rip Curl Search

“It’s hard to go on these ‘Search’ trips,” says perennial world title contender Gabriel Medina with a laugh. “You never know what the plan is.”

Medina is used to a strict routine of predictable travel on the Championship Tour, so it’s great to see him branch out and jump on a Rip Curl Search trip with Mick Fanning and Mason Ho, with no clue what to expect.

“The Search is back,” writes Rip Curl.

”It’s not often a World Title contender goes on The Search mid-season. But, when Mick Fanning let Gabriel Medina know where he was heading with Mason Ho, it was too good for Gabby to pass up.

“Medina adjusted his plans, slid into the mission, and shifted gears to hunt some wild slabs in the wildly remote coasts of Australia.

“This was no luxury trip either. The crew stayed in vermin-infested cabins in the middle of nowhere and survived off two-minute noodles and sausages in bread for dinner. Medina ate nothing but cheese sandwiches for most meals. Mason Ho even woke up one morning to find his toothbrush had been totally devastated by rats. Despite these challenges, the surfers had an incredible time. It's what The Search is all about.

“‘That was the stuff I dream of,’ says Mason Ho about the trip. ’I couldn't believe, not one person around or out. Then surfing with those two guys, they're not only surfing world champions, they're like human world champions too.’”

Hit play above for one of the better Search trips in recent memory.

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