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SAN FRANCISCO – If you need to clear your head sometimes some fresh air and a trip to the beach can change everything.
That’s the premise behind the San Francisco-based non-profit City Surf Project.
“There is something that just connects us all to something bigger than what we are by just being in nature and in the ocean,” said City Surf Project Operation Manager Meghan Hanebutt.
City Surf Project started seven years ago when …More
All the insane waves from the Margaret River Pro.
Featuring surfing from: Filipe Toledo, Tatiana Weston-Webb, Jordy Smith, Stephanie Gilmore, Cola Bros Griffin Colapinto, Italo Ferreira , Carissa Moore, John John Florence, Leonardo Fioravanti , Julian Wilson, Sally Fitzgibbons, Isabella Nichols and the rest of the Championship Tour.
Carlos Gauna surveys the wind-blown waves off a popular Santa Barbara County beach. It is a cold, gray afternoon and only a few people are in the water: a father teaching his son to surf, a lone man wading in the whitewash.
Gauna launches his video drone, hoping to spy what might be moving stealthily among them — great white sharks.
In decades past, this might have seemed a quixotic venture. Great whites were thought to be … More
Surfer Touches Great White Shark & Doesn’t Realize It – I took a drive south to warmer waters in Southern California and filmed a group of white sharks among surfers enjoying the surf. On a few occasions the sharks approached the surfers closely. The surfer’s don’t appear to know they aren’t alone in the water.