In 1995, Collins founded Surfline.com, a website that features free surf reports from around the country. The Huntington Beach-based company became an essential online destination not only for surfers but for lifeguards, the National Weather Service and even branches of the military, who used it to predict ocean conditions.
He set up the first live “surfcam” in 1996.
Collins, who lived in Seal Beach, was named one of the 25 Most Influential Surfers of the Century by Surfer Magazine in 1999 and the eighth Most Powerful Surfer in the Surf Industry by Surfer Magazine in 2002.
“Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.” — John Tyndall
