RIP the king.
The world’s most enduring legacy surf journalist Nick Carroll, brother of the two-time world champ Tom Carroll and author of the book TC, about his brother Tom, has been disappeared in a shock cull by wave forecasting website Surfline.
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Carroll, who is sixty-five, was named as Surfline’s Australian editor, a position that opened up after the surf forecasting giant bought Coastalwatch for one million dollars in 2019.
Until he shifted to Surfline, Nick Carroll was a regular in BeachGrit’s comment section, his lightly hectoring older brother tone, often uncharacteristically candid, producing some of his best work.
Carroll’s long-form stories for BeachGrit were an enjoyable change of pace for readers tired of the surf news network’s shallow click-baitery and obsessions with Kelly Slater and Great White sharks.
Carroll’s purist approach to a sport he’d been immersed in for fifty years were clear in,
Nick Carroll: “Tom is generous with me, yet I’m rarely generous in return.”
Long read: Nick Carroll on the “crazy fucking ultra-marathon” Molokai-to-Oahu paddle race!
The reason for the disappearing of Carroll, along with his talented photography sidekick Hannah Anderson, were evident when Surfline started burying their work beneath layers of cams and weather reports.
Surfline, y’see, ain’t in the news biz, it’s in the cam and forecast biz so why not chip 150k or whatever off the wages bill?
I spoke to Carroll and Hannah, briefly, after the event and both are upbeat about the future.
No word on the status of the multi-decade blood feud between Nick Carroll and former BeachGrit writer Steve Shearer, however.
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Nick who?
With a head like a supermarket roasted chicken i,m impressed nick made it even this far .
It,s certainly not because of his writing skills
Could someone please post some proof that Nick Carroll’s writing is clever?
your hamas bros killed that poor little kid
Remember when everyone thought his brother was the “Frothiest” surfer on the planet? Turns out he was just addicted to Meth…. legends all…pontahz, pont mate….
Perhaps I should take up meth, and I could go win a couple world titles in my mid 50s.
Make Meth Great Again!…
the meth was at the end of his career…..so didn’t win world title addicted to Meth!
Great point! Get the World Title, secure bigger sponsorship deals. Trade quivers of boards and product for Meth. Brilliant!…. Facts….
Mid level aka don’t expect to get paid much.
This place needs more Dostoevsky.
I wonder what Dostoevsky would think about a writer who pigeonholes themselves as a ‘surf journalist’.
And Tolstoy!
I thought night of the long knives was when Brutus (The orher one) stabbed Julius caesar?
Isn’t the nazi one kristalnight or something?
the ultimate response to every thread in this comment section is:
“I don’t really care, Margaret”
Was just admiring his well-defined physique paddling right past me (and everyone else) in the lineup not a week ago. The old man furthest out on the point, as it were.
Not Cresso where Tom was spruiking a real estate development?
Woodward and Bernstein over here.
https://www.thecrescentestate.com.au/news/a-memorable-day-with-surfing-legend-tom-carroll
Yes, shortly followed by a nice puff piece from Nick about Cresso on Surfline.
One-two punch.
Nick Carroll says to a shark
“I remember when we used to laugh at each other “
And the shark just fucken eats him
Nah fuck off nick, we’re full, no dole bludgers policy here
Coastal real estate is always good for a buck.
ain’t Hannah Anderson the epitome of the definition of Australian “Sheila”?
shut up Tyler
“tired of Beach Grit’s shallow click-baitery and obsessions with Kelly Slater, the sexual proclivities of TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS and Great White sharks”
There – fixed it for you
Thank you! But T-Girls, always T-Girls.
so much moaning, where’s the ladie’s tennis match?
two days ago, my girl jelena ostapenko lost in the ladies doubles finals. Still headed to the
hall of fame though.
My 87 yr old mother, who likes watching Barton’s podcast (she especially enjoyed the one with JJF, but thinks Kelly is a dick), asks, “Will Nick Carroll be doing a similar thing ?”
So he’s got a potential fanbase…
need jerkey~
it’s not genocide….and ahhhhh
Its a horrible situation all around – but there are currently 100s of thousands of people returning to gaza from the “genocide”
really have to sort out the meaning of genocide…..eg there are 15m Jews in the world and 2 billion muslims……and I don’t think that the Palestinians are in a great place now as herr don is backing ol netty to the hilt….that’s why the USA’s position now seems to be send all the palestinians to Jordan and Egypt!
who wont take em cuz they hate themselves. Right Rabin you fucking kuk?
now why the fuck should Tom give back his titles……because of drugs??
The next employee sacking at Surfline will be referred to as the Great Purge for balance.
Great Leap Forward could also work