Ocean City Today / Thomas Melville, Editor - June 11th, 2004

Forty years ago, Will Lucas stopped at a run-down School bus parked near the beach, rented a surfboard and ignited a lifelong passion of finding good surf. Now 58, still fit and surfing every day down in Melbourne, Fla., Lucas has returned to that yellow bus and the men and women who started the surfing scene in Ocean City. "What drives surfers is hard to explain," said Lucas who sports a thick white mustache and a deep tan. "It's kind of like a disease. It takes priority over everything." What currently drives Lucas is the preservation of the area's surfing heritage and acknowledging people who started it all in Ocean City. That's why the former business executive of a Washington, D.C. company decided retirement was not for him and started a second career as a documentary filmmaker.