Losing Nemo.
Anyone who surfs, actually surfs and is not all VAL-ish about it, knows well that surfing is neither healthy nor good. It is a bad habit for generally bad people as evidenced time, time and time again. I have, of course, spent my surf journalism life hammering this point home here and my various surf-adjacent memoirs but science, real science, is finally backing me up.
According to a just published article in the journal Science, the ocean is becoming toxically loud and destroying the breeding, eating, migrating, etc. habits of marine animals. Oil spills, chemical dumps and whatnot dissipate within a few hundred miles but even the thickest amongst us knows that sound travels well through water, making noise pollution a serious menace. The New York Times, never one to pass up pointing a finger, jumped on the story and identified major culprits including big shipping boats but also…
Explosions of mines, missiles, and bombs during naval warfare or military exercises also represent a source of destructive sound. On a small scale, even coastal recreational activities—such as small motorboats, swimming, SCUBA diving, surfing, paddling, flying unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), or fireworks—contribute anthrophony to marine soundscapes.
Surfing, you see, making it difficult for fish to hear and find their homes and not just bad fish like sharks but cute ones like the clown fish featured in Finding Nemo.
Imagine if that Disney classic had ended with Marlin and Dory swimming aimlessly while Nemo just stayed with that crew of tank fish.
Actually, that wouldn’t have been so bad.
Those tank fish were very chill.
Losing Nemo: A Surf Story.
Making being mad look good.
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For sure.
Thing is, down here these oldies are mellow and competent.
Was out last year on the biggest swell of the year(it’s a soft wave)
I’m 55, and there was a guy on a SUP at least 20 years older than me doing well, but taking a beating at times.
I was wondering if any of his kids or wife had any idea what he was doing, and how big it was.
In ice hockey,it’s easy to pick the guy is having a mid life crisis before he even steps onto the ice. He’s the guy with all the new equipment.
Is that why nemo didn’t listen to his dad
might have been there once or twice, hard to say. it was a several belt holes ago. spent most of my time there somewhere between 13th and joey.
Huge money.
I agree with them 100%! All of you wuflu, nature cucks better get the f out of the Ocean. You’re scaring fish, and that goes against your boneblowing lifestyles. So, get the f out of the Ocean and join the meth heads on the mountain.
another reason to stop talking in the lineup
surfers really, really are the worst…
It was an epic pow day today! No crunching!
Only VALs say pow
How dare you denigrate a Disney classic.
Growing up I always kinda resented Miki Dora’s status and place in surfing. I understood why he was where he was but he just seemed like such an asshole. But he really is the most accurate and honest representation of surfing that ever really broke through the popular conscious.
Imagine the poor fish subjected to the absolute dross spoken between and even during sets in Torquay.
Was amongst a local crew of oldies chatting away down Flinders area about 6 years ago and mentioned to the guy I go with that I was the only one in the line up who didn’t own a million dollar house. Or a house.
All that money doesn’t bring them any happiness though.
Um…they were all laughing, surfing, and had nice cars.
Hahaha oh fuck. Were they ripping though?
Naw.
Actually..neither was I.
Mellow mal wave.
They were a group of 70 year olds that would have seen the best of the place and seemed to have arranged a day together.
At the time, the cheapest place in Flinders was $1mil.
I’m sure it’s a bit more now.
FYI…I still don’t own a house.
those cars look real good on the beach. especially bogged to the axles with an incoming tide. not a lot of laughing from the owners. usually dogged free by a beat up old landy worth less than old mates deck shoes.
What?
I met a guy in Mexico who reckoned he could hear sets coming.
I had a nun in first grade that told us she could hear the grass grow.
I believed her.
sure he wasn’t talking about the wave ranch?
BG making grumpy look good !