The 2025 Surfers’ Hall of Fame is pleased to announce Caroline Marks, Tom Servais and Dwight Dunn as this year’s inductees. Three surfers who have made their marks in the surf world are about to leave their marks in Huntington Beach.
“We are honored and excited to induct Caroline, Tom and Dwight into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame this coming August,” said Surfers’ Hall of Fame founder Aaron Pai. “They are the best in the world in their fields of Surfing!”
World champion and Olympic gold medalist Caroline Marks, surf photographer Tom Servais and Huntington Beach local standout surfer Dwight Dunn will be inducted into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame this summer, adding their hands, feet and signature to concrete just across from the famed Huntington Beach Pier.
Marks, originally from Florida but who now calls San Clemente home, is no stranger to accolades in recent years. The surfer rose quickly up the ranks on the amateur series and won the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, before joining the elite World Tour at just 17 years old.
Just a few years later, she would win her first World Surf League Championship Title at Lower Trestles in 2023, followed by a gold medal in Paris 2024, which was her second Olympic appearance.
Along with getting her spot in the Surfers’ Hall of Fame, she will be honored as Waterperson of the Year from the Surf Industry Members Association at its Waterman’s Ball in June.
Joining Marks is another Florida-raised surfer, Servais, who recalled being mesmerized by the surfing craze when it hit in the early 60’s.
Growing up, he enjoyed fishing off the piers along Miami Beach, his mom dropping him off in the morning. He’d spend hours watching the surfers below ride waves, and when he got his first subscription to Surfer Magazine, he says he knew he wanted to join the wave riders in the water.
In 1973, Servais drove to California for a surf trip and while the waves took up much of his time, he took college classes, including the photography classes that would end up getting him a job in the Surfer magazine darkroom, alongside veteran photographer Art Brewer.
Servais spent 20 years shooting for Surfer magazine and doing commercial work for surf industry companies and eventually, in the late 1990s, started to freelance his work, a job that allowed him to spend most months of the year traveling
Dwight Dunn started surfing with his brothers, Paul and Jack, in 1967 and a few years later, at 16, started riding for Infinity Surfboards, where a year later he got a job.
He earned several more sponsorships and landed in a few magazine ads, scoring a full-page photo in Surfer magazine in 1976.
In 1979, Dunn partnered with Carl Hayward to launch Carl Hayward Surfboards, while also glassing boards for Hurley, Infinity, Hawk, HSS and other brands.
It was in 1983 when Dunn started working closely with Bob Hurley, first in the shaping room, then as Hurley was starting up Billabong USA.
When Hurley decided to start his own label in 1999, Dunn joined and worked there for 18 years. He retired in 2017, but is still involved in the surf industry as an investor in IPD Clothing.
“We are honored to be able to thank Caroline, Tom and Dwight for their achievements and contributions to our Surfing World! Each of them has inspired generations of surfers and non-surfers alike in Huntington Beach, the United States and across the globe with their God given talent!”
The 2025 inductees will have their hand and footprints immortalized in cement for the ages on Friday, August 1st at 9:00 a.m. in front of Huntington Surf & Sport; under the watchful eye of Duke Kahanamoku, the sport’s spiritual leader whose statue anchors the Surfers’ Hall of Fame. This year’s induction ceremony features the inductees, family, friends, pro surfers and industry titans, and is open to the public, free-of-charge. Further information is available at http://hsssurf.com/shof/.
The Surfers’ Hall of Fame induction ceremony pays tribute to those individuals who have made an indelible mark on the sport, industry and culture of surfing. Annually, tens of thousands of visitors travel to Huntington Beach’s downtown area and literally walk in the footsteps of surfing superstars and legends from several eras including Laird Hamilton, Andy Irons, Jack O’Neill, Robert August, Bob Hurley, Sean Collins, Kelly Slater, Lisa Andersen, Gerry Lopez, George Downing, Shane Dorian, Greg Noll, Corky Carroll, Shaun Tomson, Rob Machado, Timmy Turner, Shawn Stussy, Rabbit Kekai, Brett Simpson, Kai Lenny, Michele Turner, Laylan Connelly, Casey Wheat and Jamie O’Brien who are already immortalized in cement.
The nation’s first imprint collection of legendary surfers, the Surfers’ Hall of Fame celebrated its first induction in 1997 inside of specialty retailer Huntington Surf & Sport where several slabs remain. Four years later with the blessing of the City Council and a stunning bronze statue of Duke Kahanamoku serving as a backdrop, the ceremony moved outside to the corner of PCH and Main, less than 100 feet from the famed Huntington Beach Pier, site of the U.S. Open of Surfing.
