Rain Drops | Runoff | Surfing On Sewage In The Drop Spot

March 5, 2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

Surf at your own peril. Heavy rain spatters against contaminated city streets, which are designed to avoid flooding by directing all stormwater toward the ocean. The filthy detritus carries with it a host of insidious bacteria, trash, petroleum pollutants, metals, toxins, and viruses as it flushes curbs, sidewalks, gutters, creeks, and rivers down through drainage […]

Don’t Be A Kook Who’s Gone Coastal While Surfing Your Board In Da’ Hood

February 8, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

Summertime. San Diego. They’re all around you… You paddle out into the lineup at your favorite local surf-break seeking to shred some waves. You give a head nod to a familiar face then throw a shaka to that one dude whose name you don’t know but you recognize because he’s always in the water—and he […]

Full-Circle Eco-Friendly Surfboard | Eddy Garcia

December 5, 2018.Reading time 10 minutes.

8 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean every year on top of the 150 million metric tons (1 metric ton = 2205 pounds) of plastics that currently circulate our sea. That’s equivalent to dumping one city garbage truck full of plastic in our ocean every minute of every day for an entire year. From […]

Swing For the Moon | The Tides

November 15, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

Tides are the longest of all waves, with a wavelength that can equal half of the Earth’s circumference. As surfers, we wake up every morning thinking about the tides and how they may affect the quality of the overall surf. (Will the tide be drained, shallow, causing surfable waves at our reef or beach break […]

Smartfin Project | Surfing for Science

October 1, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

The Smartfin Project is an innovative program helping researchers fill gaps in ocean data so they can learn more about the effects of climate change on our world’s coastal ecosystems. The Ocean is the most critical part of Earth’s environmental system; a vast, durable resource to humanity, but also a finite and fragile one. Since […]

Anza-Borrego

October 1, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

California is a creative, kooky place. The desert heat can warp minds and bend imagination. Twisted metal life forms of artist Ricardo Breceda.

Surflife | Sean Robison

October 1, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

“For me, surfing is all about connection. No matter what is going on in my life, when I’m out there bobbing in the waves I feel connected to the Earth. It’s really the total package for Earthly connection. It can be social. It allows you to walk away covered in salt and sand (Earth). It […]