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PWA Pozo World Cup 2011 – High winds and swells were forecast for the fourth day of competition. Although the day started off with slow winds with the sailors released until 2pm, upon their return to the beach the contenders were greeted with a very different picture. Pozo had kicked into action; the wind was blowing a gale, and the waves pounding the shore.
With thirty knots winds and a building swell forecast, the judges were prepared and raring to go at 9am; however  … More
Deadly attacks are rare, but watch out for fins on these shorelines.
By the time a lifeguard got to him, it was too late. Stephen Schafer was kitesurfing 500 yards off an unguarded part of Stuart Beach, in Martin County, Fla., last February when he was attacked by a swarm of sharks. “He got bit after he presumably wiped out, a very serious bite,†says George Burgess, director of theInternational Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Schafer was rushed to a local hospital, where he died of his wounds.
While shark attacks are rare, they’ve been on the rise, with 79 attacks in 2010  … More