Ever since Steven Spielberg unleashed Jaws onto the world back in 1975 Sharks have had a really bad press. Throw in the yearly world news hysteria of ‘Man gets eaten by shark on holiday’ and you have a climate of fear built up around the Shark that is massively undeserved. For if you dig just [...]

I love it when you hear a really good talk, when someone puts into words something that you don’t have the capacity to enunciate succinctly but that you believe passionately about. Well here before us stands evidence bag A as Mike Biddle talks the logic of childhood as to why it makes no sense to [...]

Check out this dive footage from Tumakohua (South Pass) in Fakarava, French Polynesia. The amount and diversity of sharks is breathtaking. Such a precious eco-system that we trash at our peril.

News that San Diego State University will soon be launching the Center for Surf Research is welcome news given the pressures the burgeoning surf travel industry places on natural resources. Students will study the impact of surf tourism on coastal communities in the less-developed world and the course kicks off with a symposium called “The [...]

We don’t usually promo companies per se but having watched these vids we thought we’d share this with our readers as we’re big into improving the surf environment. These are the kind of initiatives we need if we are to leave our waters for the groms of the future and, if nothing else, to help [...]

Our regular Wednesday guest blogger, Miss Mia Legg, is back with another edition of ‘The Realm of the Kooks.’ This time she’s asking the questions no one else dare mention. This weekend my mom asked me if I wanted to watch “Jaws.” The movie. With the shark. “No mom. I am a surfer who does [...]