Sea urchin populations are exploding – the latest from Ocean Impact Organisation

Urchins, urchins, everywhere: A big focus for our messaging at OIO is reminding the public that we live on Planet Ocean. With the ocean covering 70% of the earth’s surface and providing far more habitable space that the terrestrial regions humans ...

“The Best of MTVz” - Celebrating the surf photography of Marty Tullemans

SurfWorld Gold Coast presents it’s first event of 2021 – this Saturday night, Feb 27: Marty Tullemans documented Australian surfing ...

Life & Times of Dicky Metz: Surfer, playboy, explorer & entrepreneur

Dicky Metz may be the most undermentioned name in surfing. Dick helped pioneer surf travel, the surf industry, the surf ...

Lost longboard washed up on Scottish Island had travelled over 400 miles in the North Sea

The nine-foot board drifted away from Lee Brogan in late November, when the leash snapped as he was surfing at Runswick ...

Dana Point becomes the first Whale Heritage Site in the U.S.

It was a freezing, windy, drizzly day sometime in the 1990s when I first went whale-watching. Or at least, as ...

Our 88th subscriber board winner Lesa now loving her new Fine Surfcraft by Andrew Warhurst

“Love it! Love it! Love it! So beautifully made and finished, and it goes amazing. I loved it from the first ...

The Summer of ’69 Board Project – vid from Randy Rarick

Sunset Beach, Oahu, and the Summer of 69 Board Project – with Leah Dawson, Willie Asprey and Randy Rarick. “Hey ...

One marine animal causes more death and serious injuries than sharks, sea snakes, and stingrays combined

From the “Scary Ocean File”: The Australian box jellyfish is considered the most toxic animal on earth. They may not look dangerous, but the ...

R.I.P. Ben Aipa

An innovative shaper, great surfer, and a son of Kauai, Ben Aipa died on Friday from heart complications, aged 78. ...

“The culture was terrible”: new film Girls Can’t Surf charts how trailblazing women forced change

The Sydney Morning Herald’s view on the new doco “Girl’s Can’t Surf”: Former world champion Pam Burridge is delighted by how ...

'New' whale species seen off Mexican coast

From the Strange Sea Stories File, this was posted by the BBC on Friday: Three whales spotted off the coast ...

The latest in the Rare Surf Tees

They’re produced in short runs only, and there are around 100 designs covering surfing’s 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s. They’re all absolute ...

Ummm . . . Teahupo'o confirmed as the surf venue for the Paris 2024 Olympics

This should be more exciting than the Badminton. As reported by the ISA: The International Surfing Association has announced confirmation from the International Olympic ...

THE NEW PLB ISSUE – Mick the Mighty Proofreader brings the inside info on what's in it

So each issue we ask our proofreader Mighty Mick the Hyphen to give us his run-down on what lies between the ...

New vid: Pasta Point at night with Bethany & Lakey - Maldives

Atoll Adventures, Atoll Travel and Cinnamon Dhonveli Maldives (Pasta Point) hosted surfers Bethany Hamilton & Lakey Peterson for the filming ...

RIP Marty Tullemans – legendary surf photographer, larger-than-life character

News is everywhere today in surf circles that we’ve lost Marty after a battle with dementia over the past couple ...

Subscribe & WIN a Carabine “Shakey” Modern Log – our 90th giveaway board

After 51 years straight of building surfboards of all sorts in Wollongong, the Carabine label runs deep in the DNA ...

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