Category: ocean

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

.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 […]

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Full-Circle Eco-Friendly Surfboard | Eddy Garcia

.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 […]

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Swing For the Moon | The Tides

.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 […]

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