Archive for the ‘News & Events’ Category

May 5 2010

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Posted by Pike at 8:44 pm on May 5th, 2010 to Miscellaneous, News & Events, Ocean Ecology.

On April 20th, 2010, an explosion on the oilrig Deepwater Horizon caused the rig to sink and the oil to start spewing into the sea, (hope you didn’t own stock in BP). Depending on who you ask, the amount of crude oil being deposited into the Gulf is anywhere from 5,000 – 25,000 barrels per [...]

Sep 22 2009

Freds Wave: The Ultimate Replica

Posted by Tyler at 11:12 am on September 22nd, 2009 to Miscellaneous, News & Events.

Check out this video:  (a well spent 53 seconds of your life):

As you can tell by the size of the wave, and the fact that it is powered by the back wheel of a truck, this is not the final product, simply a scale model.  But, if you surfed a wave that good whenever you wanted, how [...]

Sep 4 2009

Campaign: A Taylor Steele Surf Movie

Posted by Tim at 8:58 am on September 4th, 2009 to News & Events, Surf DVDs, Surf Media.

Taylor Steele has made some of the best surf movies out there, which is why it is just as exciting to pick up one of his old films from years ago and watch it today. That’s how it was for me with Campaign, a film by Taylor Steele in association with Poor Specimen Productions. [...]

Not that anyone needs a reason to chase big waves, but now you can while supporting a great cause at the same time. From September 1st to October 31st, get photographed on the biggest wave you can find wearing the official “Hurricane Surf for Dean!” Competitor’s Rashguard, and you could be the winner of [...]

Aug 25 2009

2009 Point Mugu Surf Contest Presented by Quiksilver

Posted by Tim at 5:20 am on August 25th, 2009 to News & Events.

This past weekend I attended the Point Mugu Surf Contest presented by Quiksilver on the Ventura County Naval Base. I’m not going to go into huge details describing the wave at Point Mugu or how significant this event is to the local community because I wrote all about that in my last post describing the [...]