After falling on face, wave forecasting website issues mea culpa.
Yesterday, as first reported here, Surfline badly and embarrassingly messed up its world title prediction. Surfing magazine’s guru Jimmy Wilson did the rocket science, days earlier, and had shown that the race is extremely wide open and yet Surfline had insisted on calling it a two man hustle.
Today, though, a new headline hangs from Surfline’s banner. It reads:
FANNING, ADRIANO OUT; TITLE RACE NOW WIDE OPEN
“We apologize to the thousands of people who count on us for both accurate news and surf forecasting. To be very honest, most of the time our nerds sit in their cubicles and throw magnetic Nerf darts at wave height numbers. The results have no bearing upon reality. Yesterday we also threw magnetic Nerf darts at the World Surf League brochure. A story emerged that also had no bearing on reality. Again, we apologize. No one in the office surfs. Four of our forecasters have never even seen the ocean. Do you want to hire our photographers for your next party? Do you like watching snuff film? Again, we apologize. The computers we use in the office are Commodore 64s. Our motto ‘Know Before You Go’ was actually lifted from the Christian Mingle dating website. Again, we apologize. Up until yesterday we thought Julian Wilson was one-third of 1990s super group Wilson Phillips and we thought ADS was an acronym for the Church of Latter-Day Saints and we though Owen Wright was Owen Wilson and we thought Filipe Toledo was a university in Ohio and we thought Wiggolly Dantas was the airline people flew when going to Australia. Again, we apologize.”
Their accompanying press release should have read.
Mistakes were made, clearly. Still, those talk story shorts they do every couple months are pure gold.
Official surf forecaster they say
2-3 feet on SurfLie means anywhere from knee to head high
1-3 feet – ankle to nipple high, while standout spots will resemble a boat wake to triple overhead on summer magnets
That picture, Chas. Who is gonna pay for my therapy????
I think Surfline may be hiring. Maybe good medical!
Well…I do have a view of the Atlantic from bedroom so I can be just as accurate with my forecasts as they are.
hard to hide on the internets.