VIA – THE BLAZE 9-Year-Old Boy’s Shocking Reaction to Shark Attack: ‘He Was So Excited’ Sep. 2, 2013 10:00am Fred Lucas Labor Day weekend will perhaps always be memorable for nine-year-old Connor Baker, as he was bitten by a shark at St. Augustine Beach, Fla. While the attack, itself, was startling enough, the young boy’s … Continue reading #LaborDay Weekend Shark Attack in FL #SurfReport
Love’m or hate em, 100,000 boards is amazing… VIA – UTSD Firm foam Wavestorms have changed the face of surfing from Costco to Hawaii’s pipeline By Tod Leonard5:21 p.m.Aug. 31, 2013 Craig Baldwin has made a name for himself surfing Costco brand foam Wavestorm surfboards. He overcame a debilitating immune system disease to … Continue reading Wavestorm’s surfboards reshaping industry #SurfReport #Video
VIA – DAILY MAIL UK By Colette Fahy PUBLISHED: 15:06 EST, 26 August 2013 | UPDATED: 04:06 EST, 27 August 2013 She might be a 44-year-old mother-of-two but Naomi Watts showed she’s a surfer girl at heart as she hit the waves in the Hamptons last Tuesday. The blonde beauty joined Liev Schreiber and sons … Continue reading Still a surfer girl! Body confident Naomi Watts, 44, gets into her bikini to ride waves on family holiday #NewYork #SurfReport
VIA – LA TIMES Opah, also called moonfish, were one of nine fish species analyzed in a new study that looked at how mercury gets into open-ocean fish and why the levels vary with depth. (C. Anela Choy / University of Hawaii / August 27, 2013) By Geoffrey Mohan August 28, 2013, 6:15 … Continue reading Mercury fingerprint of Pacific fish points to Asia coal power plants #Fishing #SurfReport
VIA – GOLD COAST AU Robyn Wuth | 06:04am August 29, 2013 GOLD Coast surfer Mark Richardson has been stripped of his 2011 World Masters Championship gold medal more than two years after testing positive to cannabis. The International Surfing Association announced the result this week — more than nine months after Richardson handed his medal … Continue reading Surfer stripped of gold after drug test #DFS
Fing incredible: http://www.ted.com In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes — a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) — and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try … Continue reading INCREDIBLE VIDEO: How I held my breath for 17 min #SurfReport #Magic #TedTalks
VIA – SF GATE High surf advisory along Bay Area coast Bay City News Saturday, March 31, 2012 (03-31) 13:34 PDT — A high surf advisory will go into effect this evening and continue throughout the weekend along the Bay Area coast, according to the National Weather Service. The warning about big … Continue reading High surf advisory along SF Bay Area coast #SurfReport 22' Waves Expected!
VIA – POST CRESCENT 7:26 PM, Feb. 25, 2012 Surfer, snorkeler drown in separate HI incidents HONOLULU (WTW) — The waters off of Hawaii have claimed the lives of a Honolulu surfer and a Japanese tourist, while a second Japanese tourist is hospitalized in critical condition after being found at the bottom of a … Continue reading HAWAII: Surfer, snorkeler drown in separate incidents