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“I was suicidal” Kelly Slater reveals his life’s darkest hour in brave new interview

  • Gabriel Medina set to return to world tour

    Gabriel Medina hints at possible tour return after surprise recovery from gruesome chest injury

    "It’s hard to hold back because every wave, I was imagining how it would be to do an aerial."

    by Derek Rielly
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  • Live chat, Gold Coast Pro, Day 4

    "I know it's early but it's…on!"

    by Derek Rielly
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  • Heartbroken surfers blame Kelly Slater after Fox cancels “Rescue: HI-Surf”

    Jimmy Slade stabs Hawaii in the back.

    by Chas Smith
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  • Panga boat, abandoned, multiple deaths.

    People Smugglers Face Death Penalty in Deadly Migrant Boat Capsizing

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants people smugglers put to the state sword…

    by Derek Rielly
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Gabriel Medina set to return to world tour

Gabriel Medina hints at possible tour return after surprise recovery from gruesome chest injury

"It’s hard to hold back because every wave, I was imagining how it would be to do an aerial."

By Derek Rielly

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Live chat, Gold Coast Pro, Day 4

"I know it's early but it's…on!"

By Derek Rielly

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Heartbroken surfers blame Kelly Slater after Fox cancels “Rescue: HI-Surf”

Jimmy Slade stabs Hawaii in the back.

By Chas Smith

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Panga boat, abandoned, multiple deaths.

People Smugglers Face Death Penalty in Deadly Migrant Boat Capsizing

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wants people smugglers put to the state sword…

By Derek Rielly

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Live chat, Gold Coast Pro, Day Three

“I’m rebuilding a relationship with surfing because of the drastic and extreme circumstances that I was raised in.”

By Derek Rielly

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Cage (left) and his childhood nightmare.

Nicolas Cage admits to debilitating fear of surfers as a child

"It was quite intimidating... they were pretty jacked up, both mentally and physically.”

By Chas Smith

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Brazilian surf fight.

Woman strangled as historic tension between free and contest surfers explodes

“His leg rope broke and wrapped around her neck.”

By Derek Rielly

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Surf bums (pictured) making America great again.

Huntington Beach politicians declare MAGA surfer the new “outcast surf bum!”

"If you look back in the 50s and the 60s, surfers were the outcasts..."

By Chas Smith

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Shane Herring, dead at 53

Watch livestream of Aussie surf legend Shane Herring’s funeral

"Wow, what a ride…"

By Derek Rielly

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Hawaiian surf god Clyde Aikau, dead at 75.

Hawaiian surf royalty Clyde Aikau, brother of Eddie Aikau, dead at 75

"The surfing world has lost a legend Sunday night, Braddah Clyde Aikau…"

By Derek Rielly

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Matthew McConaughey and Tony Hawk (insert) future surf neighbors.

Tony Hawk and Matthew McConaughey gobble up luxury condos in new Austin Surf Club!

"...a destination for surfers and those seeking a surf-themed lifestyle community in Texas."

By Chas Smith

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Gabriel Medina and Lady Gaga

Gabriel Medina Caught Up in Thwarted Terror Plot at Lady Gaga’s Rio Concert

Satanist pedophiles target Lady Gaga and almost take out three-times world champ Medina!

By Derek Rielly

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Dion Agius hospitalised with a collapsed lung.

From the archives:“I couldn’t breathe!” Aussie surf star hospitalised in Switzerland after near-fatal crash

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    It’s been several months since BeachGrit last reported on the inspirational trans surfer Sasha Jane…

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  • Stephanie Gilmore joins Hawaii’s “queen of crazy” Mason Ho at wild North Shore bacchanal

    The world’s greatest-ever female surfer Stephanie Gilmore and the Chinese-Hawaiian surf superstar Mason Ho, along…

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    • Witness: The Great White “was going like a rocket straight at us. I can see it so clearly, its mouth was open. I lifted my feet, grabbed the board…”

      Once upon a time, before the ubiquitous robot we cradle in our hands and stare…

      By Derek Rielly

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      This relatively long-form cut of the child prodigy Jackson Dorian, who enjoyed his thirteenth birthday…

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      Yeah, I know, y’seen plenty of Mason and Coco and Daddy Ho zipping through traffic on…

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