"I'm pretty cooked, yeah, but we'll push through." I said 40 (hours) so I'll go and give it a crack," he told reporters earlier in the day, after passing the previous 30-hour record. He rode more than 700 waves in setting the record, braving pitch-black seas that are home to many species of shark. Johnston raised more than Aus$330,000 (US$221,000) for mental health, taking on the record to mark 10 years since losing his father to suicide. Wearing a black cowboy hat and draped in a thermal blanket, he was carried off the beach on his friends' shoulders after finally hanging up his surfboard. Johnston surfed back to shore in the evening to rapturous applause from hundreds of supporters who had gathered at Sydney's Cronulla Beach to watch. The 40-year-old former surfing pro broke down in tears after smashing South African Josh Enslin's previous record of 30 hours and 11 minutes.
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