Some folks from A1surf report that ona recent trip to the north coast of Cornwall (England), they asked local surf shop owners and surfers what they thought of the impending Wave Hub project.  They were surprised to discover that most people didn’t know anything about the project or it’s potential to degrade the quality of [...]

Until now scientists had identified and named  about 5,000 different marine microbes, but a recent survey suggests that there could be over 100 times that amount living in our oceans.  Using a DNA probe marine biologists  found  20,000 microbes living in a single liter of seawater. "A swimmer taking just a swallow of seawater may [...]

The Aussies have done it again.  This time with a pillow that eliminates the need to get out of bed to check the surf.  It communicates wirelessly with special surf-monitoring software that you install on your computer.  The pillow vibrates according to the size of the waves, i.e. bigger waves make the pillow vibrate more [...]

Scientists in Australia are taking a novel approach to generating power from wave energy.  From the looks of it, this generator would not steal as much of the waves’ power, so surfers would not suffer from smaller waves.    I wonder if the English have looked into using this technology for their proposed wave energy [...]