A Tasmanian fish that walks on the seafloor has gone extinct. Can its cousins be saved?

For the first time in modern history, a marine fish species has been declared extinct. The smooth handfish (Sympterichthys unipennis), a shallow-water bottom-dweller with spiky fins and a barb-like protrusion on its forehead, has not been seen since 1802, when ...

Oz Longboarding Podcast Episode 14: The great Robyn Harvey from Crescent

Kirra Molnar hosts the show this week for a chat with a living legend of our sport. From the early ...

Surfer – who just happens to be a PLB subscriber - from West Marin rescues kayackers

Using only his strength and a surfboard, a Forest Knolls resident helped rescue two distressed kayakers and their nearly sunken ...

If you’re interested in the real-deal, check out Barz – established in 1996

Barz Optics are an ocean-obsessed sunglass company from Burleigh Heads, Queensland - and a disclaimer straight off the bat, they’ve ...

The alewives return – unbuild it and they will come

From the Ain’t Nature Amazing file: Maine in the USA pioneered dam removal to restore salmon runs. Now millions of ...

Surfer defends his wife from a shark attack at Port Macquarie

Chantelle Doyle, 35, was attacked by the two- to three-metre juvenile great white while surfing at Shelly Beach on Saturday ...

How a lost surfboard floated from Hawaii to the Philippines

Two years, 5,200 miles, and one resilient big-wave gun. Aug 14th, 2020: Keys, wallet, cellphone – these are items that most of ...

Oz Longboarding Episode 13: 2x World Longboarding Champion Harley Ingleby

From Weeksy and the panel: “On this week's episode we were lucky enough to chat with Harley Ingleby. As a ...

Belugas set free after a decade at an aquarium

Little Grey and Little White, both females, are the first residents of the “world’s first open water sanctuary for belugas,” ...

Surfboard sales leap. Pandemic a boon for surf industry as many Australians find refuge in the ocean

Retail data coming out of the surf industry shows many Australians have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by going surfing. The ...

“Angel Gone” – world premiere right here of Karina Rozunko’s (quite) short film

Presented by Vans: “On the heels of a busy year spent traveling far and wide, Vans team rider Karina Rozunko ...

Epic or fail? Chasing Ferry Waves in New Jersey

The Cape May–Lewes Ferry is a ferry system in the US that traverses a 17-mile crossing of the Delaware Bay to connect New Jersey. It ...

Oz Longboarding Podcast, Episode 11: Fin Design with Courtney Potter from 3D Fins

This week’s panel: Sean McKeown from the Gold Coast, Kirra Molnar from Noosa, Nathan Rivalland from Jan Juc Victoria, Matt ...

Subscribe and WIN a Nose Sugar from Fine Surfcraft by Andrew Warhurst - our 88th giveaway board!

A new model among the 16 or so in the Fine Surfcraft range, “the Nose Sugar is our first noseride specific ...

“Cynevin” – a treat 18-minute Seth Hughes film of Mike Lay and his homebreaks of Cornwall

Synopsis: Describing a connection to place of birth an intimate relationship with home. Surfing and international travel have always gone hand ...

The Green Slime is back!

Back when all fins were glassed on and boards only had one anyway, there was Green Slime, and it was ...

Southern Right Whale slaps surfers at Sydney’s Manly Beach – news and vid

A whale calf, closely followed by its mother, came within metres of surfers and swimmers at Manly beach, in Sydney’s ...

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