Something fishy about this one… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70xxxZoeD0g ‘It looked like something out of a horror movie’: Woman requires 20 stitches after she was ‘bitten by a bull shark’ Bianca Freeman was with friends when she fell into a Gold Coast canal 29-year-old says a bull shark latched onto her leg and took a large bite … Continue reading 29 Year Old Woman Attacked By Shark After Falling Into River – #surf #Australia #video
VIA – ASP ASP Announces Acquisition of Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards Tuesday, April 29, 2014 ASP International is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Billabong XXL ® Big Wave Awards. Following this 2014 event, the XXL Big Wave Awards will enter into a fresh ownership with ASP which will see the popular action … Continue reading ASP Announces Acquisition of Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards – #surf #news
VIA – COLLABR8 3 fins – the story of a copyright wrong. In 1981 when surfer Simon Anderson turned up at Bells Beach to compete in the Bells Australian surfing classic on a new style of board he’d designed there were some who laughed at him. his original logo is frustratingly close to the … Continue reading The Thruster: A Lesson in #Surf #Business and Copyrights
http://youtu.be/NmWznydTxT4 http://youtu.be/xM4N5HRBSMA VIA – CNN Woman ‘taken’ by large shark in Australia By Brian Walker, CNN updated 9:05 AM EDT, Thu April 3, 2014 (CNN) — A 63-year-old woman is presumed to have been “taken” by a large shark while swimming off the coast of Australia Thursday, police told CNN. Christine Armstrong was swimming with … Continue reading Another Shark Attack Today in #NSW #Australia – #Surf #Nature #environment #video
VIA – IB TIMES By Mark Johanson on March 31 2014 6:57 AM Second Beach in Port St. Johns has been called the “deadliest beach in the world,” and it lived up to that reputation on Saturday when it claimed its eighth shark attack victim in five years. The likely culprit is an all-too familiar … Continue reading World’s Deadliest Beach Claims Its Latest Shark Attack Victim – #SA #Australia #Africa #travel
VIA – ASP Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast Breaking News: Slater Splits from Quiksilver Dave Prodan Monday, March 31, 2014 Today, in a move tantamount to Michael Jordan splitting with Nike or David Beckham with Adidas, Kelly Slater has announced his parting ways from 23-year sponsor Quiksilver. Slater signed with Quiksilver in 1990 at the age … Continue reading Breaking News: Kelly Slater Splits from Quiksilver – #Surf #aloha
VIA – SMH.COM.AU Bodyboarder injured after colliding with dolphin Megan Levy March 17, 2014 A bodyboarder has suffered abdominal injuries after colliding with a dolphin in the surf on the NSW south coast, paramedics say. The 27-year-old man was bodyboarding at Bawley Point, about 25 kilometres south of Ulladulla, on Monday morning when … Continue reading Bodyboarder injured after colliding with dolphin – #Surf #Australia #Aloha
Here we go again… VIA – AFP Shark savages French diplomat in PNG (AFP) – 36 minutes ago SYDNEY — A French diplomat working for the European Union in Papua New Guinea was airlifted to Australia on Monday after a shark attacked him when he was kite-surfing off Port Moresby. Thomas Viot, 30, was bitten … Continue reading Shark savages French diplomat while kite-surfing in Papua New Guinea
VIA – THE CHINA POST Updated Monday, March 26, 2012 5:41 pm TWN, By Amy Coopes, AFP Surfers, sharks struggle to share the ocean in Australia SYDNEY–Rolling from his surfboard, blood gushing from the wound where a shark had just ripped a big chunk of flesh from his thigh, Australian Glen Folkard had just one thought: “I’m alive.” Folkard, … Continue reading Surfers, sharks struggle to share the ocean in Australia