The MetOp-B weather satellite will be launched in Kazakhstan, on the 23rd of May 2012, to provide essential data for weather forecasting and climate monitoring. The sophisticated craft carries a host of sensitive instruments to provide key information on temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction over oceans, ozone and other atmospheric gases for numerical […]
Adriano de Souza, Heitor Alves, Miguel Pupo, Raoni Monteiro, Gabriel Medina, Alejo Muniz, Jadson Andre, Willian Cardoso and Thiago Camarao are playing the big surfing game at the 2012 ASP World Tour. In the last decade, Brazilian surfing has become a major player in the world’s biggest wave riding circuit, with a growing number of […]
The Long Beach Surfing Association is promoting a surf movie session showcasing four films made by local New York surfers. The surf movie evening will be held on April 13th, at 8pm, at Unsound Surf. Toddy Stewart’s “Lapsed Catholics: What the Surf Magazines Don’t tell you” is a first person perspective of a surfer paddling […]
The entry period for the 2012 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards is over. The Northern Hemisphere leaves winter and enters a warmer temperature. Fortunately, the world’s best waves and surfers will also be getting heated up for the moment of decisions. Nominations will be announced before the end of this month, with the awards […]
Willian Cardoso has claimed the Burton Toyota Pro 2012, after beating his fellow Brazilian opponent Filipe Toledo, at the Newcastle Surfest, in Australia. Cardoso takes home the Mark Richards trophy in a four-foot surf day. In the Final, Toledo was penalised with a priority interference after dropping in on Cardoso without holding priority. The surfer […]
Something had to give. A stellar week of weather, waves and surfing, but it couldn’t last. Fortunately for competition, it wasn’t the waves that packed in, but a severe low pressure system caused the heavens to open.
Shoaling and refraction are two of the most important variables when it comes to wave height forecast. Wind produces large ground swells which travel thousands of miles until they hit the coastlines. The face of the wave can quickly change, though. Th truth is thatthese factors – shoaling and refraction – can easily and dramatically […]
The penultimate and semi finals day of competition commenced, with inspirational action taking place from the very first heat.
The surf breaks of Bastion Point are severely threatened. The outstanding surf spot located in Mallacoota, Australia, may soon be a memory of the past if local authorities go ahead with the construction of a boat ramp, breakwater, and car park at one of Victoria’s most special beaches for surfing. The Save Bastion Point Campaign […]
Nicole Naude has been crowned South Africa’s Sexiest Beach Babe. The new Miss Zag is a 20-year-old surfer from Redhill, Durban North, who has won a two year modelling contract and a trip to Europe to shoot her portfolio, free holidays in Mozam and a quiver of brand new surfboards. “I feel really overwhelmed!”, said […]