Meet the stoked surf nutters of the world’s original stationary wave, the Eisbach

Like the ‘Loch Ness Monster’: Basking sharks return to California waters

Ryan Lawler saw the dorsal fin in the distance, swaying slowly side to side, and assumed it was a great ...

R.I.P. Mike Doyle, the great surfer, shaper, adventurer, dead at 78

The original hotdogger, Duke title winner at Sunset, surf wax creator, sold Gidget her first board in 1959, US West ...

Sam gets his Keyo – our 82nd PLB magazine subscriber board winner!

And reckon he wasn’t ready to get it in the water. Said Keyo shaper Johnny Gill: “Young Sam has picked ...

Meet the stoked surf nutters of the world’s largest lake

Duluth Minnesota, Bob Dylan’s hometown, is probably not first place you think of when it comes to surf. But it ...

THE NEW ISSUE OF PLB - GOT A COPY?

Each issue we ask Mick the Mighty Proof Reader to give us his view of what's what, so here’s what he ...

R.I.P. Gary Propper - pioneering pro surfer, artist, and the visionary behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

A master of reinvention: Legendary US East Coast surfer Gary Propper died in his sleep Thursday night, March 14th. Gary ...

Dick Dale, godfather of surf guitar, dies aged 81

“The screams of wild animals and the sound and sensation of being in the ocean inspires my sound.” Born Richard Anthony ...

OUR 83rd GIVEAWAY BOARD – A CLEARWATER VIPER

The last 9 of the 82 longboards we’ve given away to our magazine subscribers have been beautiful big single-fins, so for ...

Sam scores the Keyo TP-V – our 82nd subscriber board winner!

All of us sat in school and doodled waves and surfboards and stared out the window right? But who ever ...

Swimming with Deep Blue – the mother of all whites

The “world’s biggest great white” kicking back with divers and not remotely interested in eating them after gorging on half ...

The news on the latest issue of PLB

Each issue we ask our esteemed proof-reader Mick The Hyphen to give us his run-down on the content – so here’s his ...

PODCAST: PLB’s ed chats youth, death, surf, and the price of fish on the “This Ocean Life” out of Santa Cruz, CA

You may have caught this already on Facebook, you may not be the slightest bit interested, but if you’re curious ...

Bay Street Beach & Santa Monica’s African American heritage –for the National Register of Historic Places

Sea of Clouds, today, announced its intention to nominate Santa Monica’s Bay Street beach area (Los Angeles County, California), a ...

R.I.P. Scott Dillon

One of the original Brookvale Six, a larger-than-life character, a ratbag, a pioneering surfer and surfboard manufacturer, stockcar racer, big-wave ...

100% of current WSL surfers tested have Exotosis (Surfers Ear)

Preliminary findings from a study carried out on a number of the world's current professional surfers by the Water Base Research ...

Surfing legend Wayne Deane dies, aged 66

THE surfing community is mourning the death of a legend of the sport, Gold Coaster Wayne ‘The Evergreen’ Deane. Deane, 66, ...