Earlier this month there was an area off the Oregon coast where the seafloor was littered with piles of dead sea life (typically slow-moving sea life, like crabs, worms, jellyfish – but no dead fish were found).  This is the fifth year in a row that this has happened in the area, so scientists have [...]

If I could go back and do college all over again, I’d give some serious thought to doing it like Alexandra Cheney.  Wheaton College granted her a $25K fellowship to travel to some of the world’s finest surf destinations (Polynesia, Australia, Japan, Costa Rica, Brazil and South Africa).  Her mission is to study the intersection [...]

Our buddy, Ed, has been on a boat in the Mentawai Islands for the past 10 days, undoubtedly surrounded by incredible waves.  Ed demonstrates his broceanography skills par excellence with this little shot of perfection that he chased down somewhere off the beaten path.   Here’s a link to a larger version of the pic.

Although this story is a bit dated, I feel it deserves a mention.  It’s a surfboard with a built-in wirelss tablet pc, so surfers can surf (the internet) while they’re out in the water. From the looks of it, the whole thing was more of a gimick to demonstrate wireless technology.  Two years have passed [...]

There’s no telling how accurate their numbers are, but the IWGA estimates the global population of recreational surfers to be around 20 million people.  There are roughly 2.5 million surfers in the United States alone, the majority being on the Pacific coast.  Link

Here’s a cool video that shows tidal movement at Black’s beach over time. http://cil-www.coas.oregonstate.edu/ncex/blacky.c1.small.mov 

Double Crown records has some podcasts of cool traditional surf guitar instrumentals (Dick Dale style music). Check ‘em out http://www.dblcrown.com/podcasts.html  You should be able to stream the podcasts in your browser. I’ve listened to most of them.  So far I think show #13 is my favorite. 

We went to the premier of Secret Machine at La Paloma Theater in Encinitas.  The movie is pretty well put together.  I don’t see what Sonny Miller was on about Globe actually having a secret machine that makes surf movies.  All of those shenanigans that were reported in the media may have been a ruse [...]

Underwater gliders are helping oceanographers remotely collect real-time information about water currents, pollution and ocean organisms.  They’re currently patroling the waters off the coast of California.  Here’s a link to the project portal and a regularly updated video depicting the gliders movements. Link

Here are a couple of links to an interesting study of the deep canyons that make the waves at Black’s so special. http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/article_detail.cfm?article_num=591 http://science.whoi.edu/users/elgar/NCEX/ncex.html