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Discover what happened on this day. Millennials is a generation who grew up with computers, internet and social networks. Having been raised under the mantra "follow your dreams" and being told they were special, they tend to be confident and tolerant of difference. Please check back soon for updates. Like many famous people and celebrities, Sonny Fai kept his personal life private.

Once more details are available, we will update this section. Zodiac Sign : Sonny Fai was a Pisces. People of this zodiac sign like romance, to sleep, spiritual themes and dislike the know-it-all, to be criticized, and cruelty of any kind.

The strengths of this sign are being compassionate, artistic, gentle, wise, while weaknesses can be to be fearful, overly trusting and desire to escape reality. The greatest overall compatibility with Pieces is Virgo and Taurus.

People born under this sign are energetic and excitable. Family was everything to Sonny Fai. There was room for church, for his Mitsubishi Lancer, for a burgeoning back-street tattooing practice and for league, lots of league. But underpinning it all was aiga. Always, even if it meant getting yourself into a situation that was both metaphorically and literally over your head.

Lesi says he is only here today because his older brother went back to save a year-old from the relentless churn of the west coast waves.

For Mann, an ex-detective, the story starts on the day before the Warriors administrative staff broke for Christmas. Each NRL club nominates their top 25 players. My last task before breaking up for the Christmas break was to submit our 25 players, and I remember putting Sonny on that list. Fai was a fringe first-grader, so it was in some respects an arbitrary decision but Mann knew what most good judges at the club did: Fai was ready for a breakthrough year. It will enable the Fais to leave Mangere East and relocate to Australia.

The Warriors have enjoyed the odd good year among the ordinary since that day, but the club remains haunted by his loss. In a Sliding Doors world, Fai would have been at his peak as a player. He would possibly be remodelling his game from a devastating edge runner to a forward more at home in the middle of the park. He would have been approaching games, injury permitting, and his work ethic and unbreakably cheerful disposition would remain an inspiration to young players making their way at the club.

Sonny Fai, he liked to express himself. Ropati brings up Matulino not just because he was a youth team contemporary of Fai, but because they were best friends, inseparable almost.

They shared a Samoan heritage, roomed together on trips and even shared hair straighteners. It was Matulino who the panicked Fai family first contacted when Sonny went missing. Mann was looking forward to an early night. He took the call. Matulino mumbled something about the Fai family contacting him to say Sonny was missing. He had no details and at that point Mann thought he was dealing with a misunderstanding rather than anything sinister.

Matulino called again. It painted a grimmer picture than that of a kid who had carelessly missed his ride home. The only recommendation was that the surf club and Waitakere Council, in conjunction with Telecom, pursue the possibility of installing a publicly accessible landline at the beach. Even with the benefit of hindsight, this would not have saved Fai. He made the call on a day where a southeasterly breeze prevented the temperature ever getting beyond the low 20s, although it felt much warmer.

His older sister, Lalelei Fai Tupulua, who, at 10 years his senior, was more like a mother-figure to Fai, had a nagging sense of unease when Fai came to her asking for the keys to the van. Fai wanted to take his younger siblings and his cousins, who were visiting from Australia, to Bethells to show them how the Warriors trained.

Colleen and Lesi were used to accompanying their brother on his missions. He would often drag them down to Massey Park at 5am to watch him run laps; one time he even convinced them to join him in the Warriors gym.

The Fais, after what Lesi says seemed like a drive that took forever, looked not to the water first but the hills. Risati Mamea,cousin of Sonny Fai, lets his lavalava billow in the wind during the search. The Bethells dunes are legendary.

They shapeshift over time as wind and foot traffic take sand from one place and deposit it elsewhere but one thing remains constant: they are more fun to go down than up. For the Warriors, the dunes have long represented a special kind of hell. Each pre-season they conduct a session there.

It is torture. No matter where you go the trainers will find some way to torture you. But the thing with the dunes is it teaches you how to function in those dark times. It teaches you how to function under extreme fatigue.

He did it for no other reason than he thought it would make him a fitter player, a better player. Leaving the dunes for the beach, Fai would have been exhausted.

His legs would have felt like concrete columns and his heart rate and core temperature would have been greatly elevated.

The shimmering water would have looked like salvation. Scanning the sea, he and his family chose a calm patch of water that seemed more inviting than the rolling, dumpy waves that were breaking on either side. As currents move on and off west coast beaches, rips form around low spots or breaks in sandbars. The water flows away from shore and does so disconcertingly swiftly.

Quickly you can find yourself further from the beach than anticipated. Good swimmers, those experienced in rip conditions, know the worst thing to do is panic and try to fight against the current. Strong swimmers are told to swim sideways, parallel to the shore, because rips are rarely more than 25m wide. Poor swimmers are advised to keep their heads above water and let the rip take you to its natural end, normally just beyond the breakers. From there you make a decision to either tread water and wait to be rescued, or swim sideways away from the rip before attempting to make your way back to shore.

The Fais knew none of this theory. They fought the current and, heavy-legged and tired, were quickly overwhelmed. The older men managed to fight their way to safety, but Lesi, at 13 the youngest in the group, was in big trouble. I was drowning, I kept going under the water. Lesi recalls only snippets of what happened next. He remembers being pushed through the water by his brother before being wiped out by another wave.

When he resurfaced he was certain Sonny was right behind him. Colleen, who was watching in terror, fills in the gaps. She watched Sonny and Lesi, overcome by panic and exhaustion, struggling to stay afloat in the surf before they disappeared from sight. The next few minutes were a blur of chaos and confusion.

No one knew what to do. One cousin raced to the lifeguard tower to find it was locked for the day, others stayed in the shallows desperately scanning the waves for the brothers. Drawn to the rocks to the right of the lifeguard tower, Colleen noticed someone floating lifelessly to shore.

Sonny Fai has left friends, family and loved ones heart-broken as the news surrounding the death of Sonny Fai was announced. Information about the death of the deceased was released across social media on January 4, Sonny Fai cause of death is still unknown.

We will update this as soon as we have more information to pass across. Sonny Fai Funeral and Obituary arrangements has not been officially released.