The last thing most surfers would want to see is a great white shark circling their board. But when two of the notorious apex predators began swimming around Chuck Patterson earlier this week off San Onofre in northern San Diego County, he saw opportunity  … Details
“Shark Week” is over but a leading scientist’s revelation that great white sharks appear to be growing in number off California is sure to generate more heightened interest in the apex predators — particularly among swimmers and surfers.
“I think there are more sharks,” Christopher Lowe, a professor at Cal State Long Beach and director of the university’s Shark Lab, said during an exclusive phone interview. “And that’s not a bad thing … Details
After graduating from Pepperdine University with a degree in advertising, where she interned with MTV, Candy Harris began her career as a grip at Smashbox Studios, a premier photo studio in Los Angeles. It was a perfect complement to her studies, which included a focus in fine art photography, but it wasn’t exactly what she was looking for.
After dabbling in the world of big, corporate ad agencies, Harris found herself drawn to Laguna Beach for a handful of reasons: to be with her now husband Enich [Billabong’s marketing director] and to explore an opportunity with a start-up youth marketing agency called The Shop.
“Enich had worked with … Details
Like so many in the action sports industry, Danielle Beck’s career started in retail. Her hometown shop, Moondoggies in San Luis Obispo, California, gave Beck her first taste of the business side of surfing and helped launch the career of one the most influential women in action sports.
After a trip to San Diego to visit a friend, Beck decided she’d had enough of the cold waters of SLO and transferred out of Cal Poly to move to SoCal, where she began teaching surf lessons at the well-known Paskowitz Surf Camp in San Clemente.
During her first summer at the camp twelve years ago … Details