VIDEO: Shocking Moment Shark Leaps Out of Water and Takes Paraglider’s Foot [arve url="https://youtu.be/dQF1ahThc2g"] SwellBrains | July 1, 2021 Likes Tweets 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: 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: Great White Sharks Off California Are More Common and Closer Than You Think [arve url="https://youtu.be/wFhqmLCqEu8"] SwellBrains | May 11, 2021 Likes Tweets 2 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
VIDEO: Chuck Patterson Skis Huge Wave at Mavericks, CA [arve url="https://youtu.be/48mQbJVK3kI"] SwellBrains | January 13, 2021 Likes Tweets 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
VIDEO: Drone Captures Moment Great White Shark Approaches Pro-Surfer [arve url="https://youtu.be/eKSBY3acZE8"] SwellBrains | October 9, 2020 Likes Tweets 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
Surfer Killed as He Tried to Ride Waves Created by Incoming Hurricane Laura A 25-year-old Texas surfer was killed yesterday after attempting to ride the waves created by the incoming Cat 4 Hurricane Laura, prompting the mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas to close the gulf beaches. Related: 5 Experienced Surfers Killed in Rough, Foamy Seas Off Coast of Netherlands First responders rushed to the beach just after 3 pm for what was initially […] SwellBrains | August 27, 2020 28 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
Trip Report: The Stunning Central California Coast I voyaged down the Central California coast this week. The trip was sublime. Medium-sized mushy waves. The best car-camping campsites of my life. Exquisite sunsets. Vicious full-moonrises. 20 dolphins jumping & frolicking 100′ off the beach for 30-minutes whilst I ate breakfast. Cool, wet waterfalls. Hummingbirds. International Space Station zipping by. Bunnies everywhere. Bats like crazy at sunset. Fast-flowing fog. […] Trip Report Miles Clark | August 10, 2020 2 Comments
VIDEO: Surfing Florida’s Coast After Hurricane Isaias https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9WdNRrrLCs&feature=youtu.be “Hurricane Isaias finally sent some surf towards South Florida, which has been flat all summer. Got a chance to film again once the storm passed! Super fun session! Almost got run over by an unknown kook at 3:20! Make sure to watch in HD!” — Living in Lama Land Show Surf SwellBrains | August 7, 2020 0 Comments
Australian Surfer Intervenes During Shark Attack To Aid Fellow Surfer Last week, surfer, Phil Mummert was attacked by a great white shark off the western coast of Australia. According to Fisheries WA (Fisheries Department of Western Australia), the great white was believed to be 13-feet (4 meters) in length and approximately as wide as a Land Cruiser. The attack occurred last Friday at Bunker Beach. With a shark that large, […] Spencer Cox | August 5, 2020 0 Comments
Trip Report: The Waves & Mountains of Big Sur, California Report from July 2020 We went down to Big Sur, California last week with dreams of big waves, epic camping, and new experiences. The drive down legendary Highway 1 was gorgeous. Far enough south, there is no flat land. 2,000-foot mountain faces dump directly into calm seas below. Fog fluttered up and down the towering mountain masses. Sunshine turned the […] Trip Report Miles Clark | July 27, 2020 1 Comment
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