From Craig Baird at the Australian National Surfing Museum: “This is footage from Lorne in the early 1920s showing the earliest surfing in Victoria. Wealthy Geelong sports enthusiast Louis Whyte travelled to Hawaii in 1919, spent six months learning to ...
“Abnormal” shark behaviour in the Red Sea, Egypt
From the Strange Sea Tales file, November 2020: Ras Mohammed National Park and the Brothers Islands in the northern Red ...
Paul McCartney launches new Music Video to support Surfers For Climate
"Often we can feel a bit helpless to engage in climate action. With that in mind we created Surfers For ...
1963, Pearl Turton at Palmy from the “Surf and Underwater Girls Series” newsreels
Dug up from the bowels of the British Pathe Reuters Historical Collection by PLB’s archive detective Ian Lording. Six minutes of gold ...
“Cosmic Torchings” – full 18-minute film
Longboards & short: “A warped journey into the torched portals of parallel dimensions. Buckle in and take a trip with ...
Oz Longboarding Podcast Episode 24: Surf historian and legendary Victorian Bob Smith
Host this week is Nathan Rivalland relegating Jason Weeks to panelist, along with Sean McKeown and Matt Chojnacki. “This week we ...
New women judges – and not the Amy Coney Barrett kind, surf judges :)
And you can join: As part of a wide-reaching initiative to promote gender equality in surfing, the International Surfing Association (ISA) ...
Humpback almost swallows two humans in California
Two whale watchers had a close encounter while kayaking off the coast of Avila Beach that they will likely never ...
It was "like a leaf being taken out," lamented Marjorie Gillespie. "So quick and final." It was a Sunday morning, ostensibly like ...
Conor Maguire’s monster at Mullaghmore during Hurricane Epsilon
Like Cloudbreak’s meaner, colder, crazy cousin – 60 foot of barrel if it’s an inch – and Ireland’s unassuming 26-year-old ...
Freshwater Malibu & Waikiki? South Korean Wave Park longboard menu
The latest “wave menu” from Wavegarden Technologies has their South Korean Wavepark offering “longboard settings” ranging from "Malibu 1" through ...
Germany, an abandoned coal mine, and the world’s largest wave pool, ever
On an abandoned coal mine three-hours from the North Sea in the eastern Ruhrm region, a group is planning two ...
The MalibuArtist – shark drone guy
The latest from Carlos the great white enthusiast based in Southern California: “I haven't posted an Observations video in a while, ...
Big manta rays “right under noses” off busy Florida
From the Strange Sea Stories file: The unusually high number of young “urban mantas” suggests there is a nursery ground ...
Oz Longboarding Podcast Episode 20: with longboarder, muso, thinker, Tom Avery
Joining host Jason Weeks this week are panelists Sean McKeown, Kirra Molnar and Nathan Rivalland. “Tom is a well-known singer, songwriter, ...
Oz Longboarding Podcast Episode 22: Mick and Dan Corbett
“This week we are joined by two of the world's best-known big wave hellmen. What most people are NOT aware ...
So Russel Crowe’s the biggest South Sydney Rabbitohs fan? Hardly! Hail Jack and Corey
Meet Maroubra locals Darren “Jack” Corner and his son Corey: “We both love longboarding and we both love The Bunnies!” Yes it's ...
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