3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (363+ words) Ed Sloane from Victoria was in the water shooting when he was bitten on the ankle. In fending his assailant off, Ed's splashes drew the attention of'the organisers who sounded the horn and cleared the water. Protocol dictates that if…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (988+ words) 11 heats run today, 10 remaining to finish off another WSL event with a diabolical forecast that's had to be squeezed right down to the end of the toothpaste tube." Surely, fans may have thought, after sitting out a week's worth of…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (522+ words) What separates the surfer from the person who surfs? The question is as old as the oceans themselves and the catalyst for any number of highly-charged intellectual debates around a rusting Super Amart eight-piece outdoor setting after a gutful of…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (957+ words) Topped and tailed by quality overhead surf with the rest of the day mostly torn up by persistent devil winds and a long low tide slump, the New Zealand Pro marched through Round 2 for Men and Women. The sun was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (931+ words) Twenty heats of pro surfing conducted in a surprisingly entertaining day at waist-to-overhead Manu Bay. As far as the venue went, Manu Bay acquitted itself well today. It was, as the Woz assured us, a high performance left with multiple…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (388+ words) Over the last decade'Needessentials has quietly built one of the more compelling bodies of work in surf cinema. Quiet being the operative word. Tesoro Enterrado laid down the template, Nordurland showed they could hold our attention, the Lost Track films…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1243+ words) On any given Sunday every semi-Insta famous surf spot is choc-a-block full of alternative surf craft. Mid-lengths, Mini mals, Mini Simmons, paipos, foils, e-foils, SUPs, finless foamies aggressively being bum-turned through groaning crowded breaks. Or, as you and I Joe…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (635+ words) Though an obituary was requested, a tribute was more in keeping with the way Shane Stedman lived his life. When I edited Shane Stedman's autobiography, The Shane Gang, back in 2018, Shane came up to Noosa and stayed with us for…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago  (436+ words) Two things that cause extreme tidal differences: A long and narrow bay, or a long and shallow continental shelf. The Bay of Fundy in eastern Canada, where the world's largest tidal differences are registered, has a mix of both. Here…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1483+ words) Phil Myers, 73, Shaper, Social Media Antagonist, Gemstone Fossicker I was born in Lismore and have lived in the Lennox region pretty much all my life. It's just so crowded now. It's a fucking nightmare. It really is! I started surfing…...