Tomorrow I’ll be featured on BBC World Service’s Outlook, which reaches over 10 million listeners worldwide.

The story is about my journey from action sports filmmaker to quadriplegic, and how adaptive surfing helped me rediscover freedom in the ocean.

I’m now directing a feature documentary about adaptive surfers attempting some of the world’s most challenging waves.

I suppose you found this page from the BBC broadcast, so welcome. Your support helps us film the next stage of the journey and bring this story to life.

Thank you for helping push this project forward.

What funds will support:

Documentary development

Travel to adaptive surf locations

Camera and filming costs

Production/travel assistant

Archival restoration

Adaptive surf equipment

Hawaii February 2026: Surfboard Build

I just returned from Waikiki where I met with Denny of Oahu Surfboards who has taken on the project of building my first adaptive surfboard. Denny was referred to me by my first surf shop sponsor, Moku! Moku is supporting my water safety in the Hawaii Access Surf Competition May 5-8 and contributing to my adaptive board build.

Waves Of Mutilation (Working Title)

Watch the short film intro video here (not a trailer for the movie)

Youtube Video

My name is Murray Siple. I’m a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and adaptive surfer based on Salt Spring Island, BC. I’m the director of Carts of Darkness, a film that gave voice to an outsider community rarely seen on screen.

For most of my life, movement shaped how I understood the world through skateboarding, snowboarding, and surf culture. A life-altering accident changed my body, but it didn’t end that drive. I built a career in documentary film and later committed fully to painting and sculpture. The need to make another film, one rooted in real risk and lived experience, has never left.

In May 2024, I found adaptive surfing.

It pulled me back from quiet withdrawal and gave me something demanding again: preparation, fear, exhaustion, consequence, and joy. It also gave me the community of surfers navigating blindness, amputations, and spinal cord injuries, alongside the volunteers who make ocean access possible. Together, they’re expanding the definition of disability.

This film follows that world from the inside, from my journey as an adaptive surfer.

I’ve already invested over $35,000 of my own funds to begin documenting this story. I’m now asking for help advancing to the next stage and matching my $35,000 in development funding, the critical phase where a documentary either becomes viable or stalls. This supports essential travel, adaptive surfboard development, a professional sizzle reel, and the assistant support required for me to work safely and sustainably.

I’m asking for your help to carry this film through development and into full production.

If you believe stories about disability can be physical, unsentimental, and grounded in absolute risk, your support or simply sharing this campaign helps make Waves Of Mutilation possible.

Thank you for being part of this next chapter.