Back in the Bay
The Boxing Day tsunami hit Arugam Bay, on the East coast of Sri Lanka at 8.45am six years ago, taking the lives of 300 people, roughly twenty percent of the community’s population. Mat Arney revisits six years on.
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Landes - Courant d’Huchet Natural Reserve
Looking for plastic filters, our correspondents from the Surfrider64 branch have been noticing a significant pollution issue close to the Courant d’Huchet river mouth. This site is the door of the Courant d’Huchet nature reserve. This pollution seems constituted by an accumulation of plastic and waste brought by the sea and land.
Alarm as Blue Flag rewrite the rulebook
Surfers Against Sewage are concerned to learn that Foundation of Environmental Education is considering rewriting the rulebook to relax regulations on sewage discharges from Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs). SAS’s directors are writing to the director of FEE calling for Blue Flag beach users to be protected from raw sewage discharges.
The Vanity Project: Part IV
The snow may have been causing havoc outside, but it’s the white stuff inside that’s more of an issue for Clare Howdle, as her vanity project enters the final stages…
The Last Drop from Brad Melekian
It’s a month or so since the tragic death of Andy Irons, but here’s one North Shore man’s perspective on the rider who hated fame and fortune.
Cité de l’Océan et du Surf
The City of Biarritz desired to create a museum and exhibition center for this well known seaside resort town that would explore both surf and sea and their role upon our leisure, science and ecology. This project is the winning scheme from an international competition that included the offices of Enric Miralles/Benedetta Tagliabue, Brochet Lajus Pueyo, Bernard Tschumi and Jean-Michel Willmotte.
05 Surf Film Festival Ciudad de Santander
The 05 Surf Film Festival Ciudad de Santander, kicks off from the 8th to the 10th of December at Los Angeles movie theater in Santander, Spain.
