Surfing Legend Greg ‘Da Bull’ Noll, 84, Passed Away at his Home in California Yesterday View this post on Instagram A post shared by Noll Surfboards (@nollsurfboards) Surfing legend Greg “Da Bull” Noll passed away peacefully yesterday. He was 84. According to an Instagram post from his son’s surf company, Noll Surfboards, Greg died of natural causes. Related: El Salvador’s Top Surfer Dead At 22 After Being Struck By Lightning Noll was one […] Surf SwellBrains | June 29, 2021 0 Comments
Man Attacked by Great White Shark Off California Coast A great white shark attacked a 35-year-old man off the coast of California on Saturday. Related: VIDEO: Great White Sharks Off California Are More Common and Closer Than You Think The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office reports that the man was swimming off of Grey Whale Cove State Beach, about eighteen miles south of San Francisco, on the San Mateo […] Surf SwellBrains | June 28, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Yes, You Can Surf Lake Tahoe, But is it Any Good? [arve url="https://youtu.be/zTCc9vSRlFo"] SwellBrains | May 28, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
VIDEO: “Maps of Home” feat. Surf Legend John John Florence [arve url="https://youtu.be/n3NS9bPa5qY"] SwellBrains | May 26, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
VIDEO: 11-Year-Old Lands the First Ever Front Flip in Surfing [arve url="https://youtu.be/PS5c8ReU1yk"] SwellBrains | May 19, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Photos: Mikaela Shiffrin Takes a Break From Training to Go Surfing Mikaela Shiffrin takes a break from training on snow at Squaw and Mammoth in California and hits the waves instead. Related: Mikaela Shiffrin Happy to Call Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, CA Home For the Spring Or maybe it’s all part of training? Great for balance… The girl’s got talent! Surf SwellBrains | May 17, 2021 1 Comment
VIDEO: Bore Tide Surfing in Turnagain Arm, Alaska People riding the Turnagain Arm bore tide. pic.twitter.com/DRpsZLoCCd — Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) May 14, 2021 Twitter user Brian Brettschneider shared a video of surfers taking advantage of and surfing a bore tide in Alaska. A bore tide occurs when seawater rushes into a river or inlet. Bore tides come in after very low tides created by the full or new moon. […] Surf Clay Malott | May 14, 2021 0 Comments
Surfer Who Lost His Leg to a Great White Shark Wins 6-Year Legal Battle to Keep the Tooth A surfer who lost his leg, and almost his life, has just won a six-year legal battle to keep the tooth the great white shark left embedded in his surfboard. “You can see the damage on the end of the tooth from it going into my board — it’s definitely a bottom jaw tooth — its top jaw got my […] Surf SwellBrains | May 7, 2021 0 Comments
NOAA Launches First National Rip Current Forecast Model to Save Beach-Goers Lives This article was written by the NOAA For the first time, NOAA is launching a national rip current forecast model, aimed at saving the lives of beach-goers around the country. This new model can predict the hourly probability of rip currents along U.S. beaches up to six days out. Related: How to Spot, Avoid and Escape Rip Tides in the […] Surf SwellBrains | April 12, 2021 0 Comments
El Salvador’s Top Surfer Dead At 22 After Being Struck By Lightning El Salvador’s top surfer and Olympic hopeful, Katherine Diaz, has died after she was struck by lightning while training on a beach. Diaz, 22, was training close to her home in El Tunco, El Salvador when an electrical storm hit the area. She was still in the water when she was struck by lightning. Onlookers tried to help her until the paramedics […] Surf Nick Retterer | March 23, 2021 0 Comments
Injured Surfer Rescued After Writing HELP on the Sand in Auckland, NZ On Wednesday, February 18, Ben Searancke left his home to go surf alone at Karekare Beach. Karekare Beach is a remote beach on the western shores of Aukland. Searancke was swept into rocks and lost his board. He eventually was swept to shore in Mercer Bay to the north with a deep laceration on his leg. After two hours of […] Surf Dominic Gawel | February 19, 2021 0 Comments
VIDEO: Chuck Patterson Skis Huge Wave at Mavericks, CA [arve url="https://youtu.be/48mQbJVK3kI"] SwellBrains | January 13, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Surfing Banned Indefinitely at Nazaré Due to Health Concerns Caused by Crowding Portugal’s National Health Commission has banned surfing at Nazaré after tens of thousands of spectators flocked to the beach to watch what is being referred to as ‘The Swell of the Century’. Related: VIDEO: Swell of the Century | Best Day Ever at Nazaré in Glorious 4k Slow Motion The ban, effective immediately and indefinitely, was a difficult decision for […] Surf SwellBrains | November 5, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: Swell of the Century | Best Day Ever at Nazaré in Glorious 4k Slow Motion [arve url="https://youtu.be/58xpkwd5NaY"] SwellBrains | November 3, 2020 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Woman Swims Across Monterey Bay, CA in Record Time In a tremendous 13-hour endeavor, Catherine Breed made history by becoming the fastest woman to ever swim across the Monterey Bay. Departing on Monday evening from Santa Cruz, Breed swam 25 miles through the night, finally finishing this monstrous distance swim on Tuesday morning. “I couldn’t wait to sit down. I enjoyed parts of it, but I was really happy to […] Surf Spencer Cox | September 25, 2020 0 Comments
Biggest Wave Of The Year Ridden By Woman Was Controversial The biggest wave surfed this year on the World Surfing League XXL Competition has been surfed by a woman. Maya Gabeira surfed a 73.5-foot wave on February 11 in Nazaré, Portugal, winning the WSL’s 2020 women’s XXL Biggest Wave Award. Although the award is split into gender categories, Gabeira surfed a bigger wave than all the men. The 2020 men’s […] Surf Rouchelle Gilmore | September 18, 2020 0 Comments
San Diego, CA Lifeguard Killed After Traumatic Neck Injury While Surfing in Mexico Blake Dresner, a 24-year-old North San Diego County lifeguard, was killed after suffering a “traumatic surfing injury” at the Playa Abierta beach break, in Mexico last week. Today, Monday 24th August, the Encinitas community is gathering at Moonlight Beach at 10 am to honor the life of the 24-year-old surfer. Dresner was in Salina Cruz, Mexico with his closest friends when […] Surf SwellBrains | August 24, 2020 0 Comments
Two Surfers Start Company To Tackle Garbage-Ridden Beaches On a quest for epic waves and golden beaches, surfers Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze headed to Bali, Indonesia in 2015 for a post-college trip of a lifetime. Unfortunately, what they found instead were garbage-ridden beaches with nothing but water bottles, food containers, and plastic bags for miles. While the overwhelming sight of endless trash left them horrified, it also […] Surf Emily Crofton | August 21, 2020 0 Comments
A Surfboard Lost in Hawaii in 2018 is Recovered 5,200 Miles Away A surf photographer in Hawaii lost his surfboard when out surfing one day at Waimea Bay on the Island of Oahu in February of 2018 and feared that it was gone forever. That was, until a few weeks ago when it washed up on a tiny island in the Philippines roughly 5,200 miles away. Related: Australian Surfer Intervenes During Shark […] Surf SwellBrains | August 19, 2020 1 Comment
VIDEO: Surfing Canada’s Stunning West Coast: Is This Place a Cold-Water Indonesia? [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=231&v=lUestA2pdWs&feature=emb_logo"] SwellBrains | August 11, 2020 Likes Tweets 0 Comments