Mike Castillo
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Mike Castillo is a veteran Baja pilot, well known in the surfing industry. He is credited for spotting the world famous surf break, Cortes Bank
, by air in 1990 while flying over the coast of Southern California with photographer Larry Moore.
He currently flies an amphibious Grumman Albatross for Billabong
, which he recently piloted for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Project for GreenLandOceanBlue.
Cortes Bank
Cortes Bank is a dangerously shallow chain of underwater mountains in the Pacific Ocean, about 115 miles west of Point Loma San Diego, USA, and about 50 miles south-west of San Clemente Island, Los Angeles County....
, by air in 1990 while flying over the coast of Southern California with photographer Larry Moore.
He currently flies an amphibious Grumman Albatross for Billabong
Billabong
Billabong is an Australian English word meaning a small lake, specifically an oxbow lake, a section of still water adjacent to a river, cut off by a change in the watercourse. Billabongs are usually formed when the path of a creek or river changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end...
, which he recently piloted for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N...
Project for GreenLandOceanBlue.