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

Shark slaps surfer and leaves her with a black eye

A Florida surfer waiting for a wave got a slap in the face from an acrobatic spinner shark instead.  Kara Haun was out ...

The new issue is out – got a copy? Mick the Mighty Proof-Reader brings his rundown on what’s in it

Subscriber copies have landed all over Down Under, the US, NZ and rest-of-the-world mags will be arriving in mailboxes any day – ...

Saving Coral

“A particular quirk of their biology: while most people think corals are plants (or even rocks), they are in fact ...

Whale asks human for help – human obliges. News + vid

Sydney Harbour: The whale seemed to stare straight at him. Ivan Iskenderian watched it swim within a metre of his ...

Wayne Booth’s Dead Kook – our 80th subscriber board winner!

Lennox Head’s Wayne Booth has spent the best part of his life looking after others in one way or another. ...

Longboarding on land, through Eastern Russia – a 25-minute movie

Some unusual stuff lands in our inbox from time to time, and this you’d have to file this under “Exotic”. ...

New study on sea turtles and plastic . . .

From the BBC: The never-ending surge of plastic into the world's oceans is taking an increasing toll on iconic marine ...

Some good news on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

Now, for the first time, there is going to be an attempt to get into the middle of the Pacific ...

The Duke, the Stockholm Olympics, bringing surfing to Australia, death on the fields of France in WW1 – the extraordinary story of Cecil Healy

"He is someone that Australia should remember as an example of what young blokes can do when they go out ...

Shrinking penises? Is there no end to what plastic is capable of?

Oh dear. According to scientists from the University of Melbourne, genital defects and shrinking penises are on the rise because ...

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, ...

R.I.P Wayne Deane - 1952 - 2018

Tribute from Andrew McKinnon: Wayne started surfing in 1960 with his older brother Robye Deane, their Dad John taught them ...

We’re ba-aack! So PLB’s two weeks “gone bush” turned into a month – but how’s this for an excuse?

Clearly getting more than they bargained for, the ed and the art director headed into the Pacific in search of ...

Gone bush - no phone, no internet, back March 4

Yep, for the next fortnight the PLB ed and the art director have headed well off the grid into some ...

Farewell Bruce Brown – 1937-2017

Bruce Brown single-handedly changed the public’s perceptions of the act of surfing, and of surfers, with The Endless Summer – ...