A colossal 16-foot great white decapitates and eats a stranded pygmy sperm whale in front of rescuers in NZ

The picturesque shores of northern Hawke’s Bay on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula recently became the stage for a thrilling, albeit tragic, encounter. Warning, this is a pretty distressing story – as reported by Hawke’s Bay Today out of NZ: Māhia: Huge ...

Sunshine Coast’s The Surf Farm pool names tech provider

Yeppoon’s magnificent plunger and Melbourne’s URBNSURF aside, wave pools have been a little slow getting rolling in Australia so far. ...

Ride Natty Ride – surfing & Bob Marley

“You can meet me where the music meets the ocean. Read Genesis 1 and you’ll understand why I love surfing. ...

Scientists race to save Florida's spinning, dying fish

FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: As the mysterious event that causes sawfish to spin and die continues, experts are taking an unprecedented ...

RIP Max Pendergast

Byron Bay lost a treasure when Max Pendergast died recently, aged 80. To know Max was to like and admire ...

Thief knocks off surfer’s car in a crazy scene at packed Duranbah – news vid

Dbah on the southern end of the Gold Coast can be a pretty heavy spot at times, but this is next ...

Stealing Paradise: Sand Mafias, Beach Thefts

Did you know there is a global shortage of sand? And there are organised groups that exploit this? Like, sand mafias! ...

The 2024 LOGJAM! Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz

The Contest. Big Stick Surfing Association’s Logjam! is going off on April 27-28. The contest is the longest running vintage longboard event ...

Why aren’t there more saltwater wave pools?

From WavePool Mag: With Kelly Slater’s unveiling of Surf Abu Dhabi last week and the stacks of comments that followed, one ...

One trillion reasons why your daily surf is good for your health, and the economy

Universities in Australia and Chile have gotten together and worked out that surfing is good for your mental and physical ...

Nine-minutes of raw drone footage from Skeleton Bay

Namibia’s freakish racetrack, the best it’s been in two years. Filmed by Mendo Dornelas: “Crazy few days in Namibia to see one ...

WIN A CARABINE 9’4” PIGLET – OUR 103 BOARD GIVEAWAY!

Carabine Surfboards have just completed the gargantuan and no doubt bittersweet task of moving factory after more than 50 years ...

DAVE WINS THE OCEANSIDE 9’3” BLUNT

Dave Maxwell is a didge-playing, old mal-frothing, cat loving, hard working father of two and granddad of three out of ...

Campaign and petition to stop mega octopus farm – from Ekō

News from Ekō: Octopuses are highly intelligent and sentient beings, capable of complex problem-solving and social interaction. It's well-documented that they suffer ...

“Mona Boys - Surfing in the Sixties”

Produced and edited by Phil Sheppard, this is a really great little 33-minute movie – so maybe do yourself a favour, ...

The Bells’n’Blues show - Crescent Swells - track list, tune in

“This week’s show kicks off with the classic Bells opener AC/DC’s Hells Bells. We pay tribute to the some of the ...

Five more cocaine ‘bricks’ washed up on Sydney beaches as drug mystery deepens

More than 250 kilos of cocaine has washed up on Newcastle to Sydney beaches since December. Here’s the news on ...

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