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Iconic South Pacific surf resort destroyed by tsunami following Krakatoa-like undersea volcanic eruption!

Steve Burling’s Ha’atafu Beach Resort in Tonga no longer exists.

By Ben Marcus

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Californian surf legend involved in “bizarre and tragic” episode after woman leaps from 300-foot cliff following hit-and-run accident!

CHP investigators said the woman either “fell or jumped.”

By Ben Marcus

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World’s most famous surf explorer reveals he’s been sequestered on famous yacht for past three years as he rides out pandemic, “I’ve been watching the world go mad! Everyone seems to have lost their minds!”

"I am at sea, via Satcom. Waiting for the end of this crap."

By Ben Marcus

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Long Read: “Tommy Zahn was the world’s greatest surfer because he ___________ Marilyn Monroe” – Gerry Lopez

Or how the world’s most enduring sex symbol almost inspired the modern shortboard… 

By Ben Marcus

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Zuckerberg buys the land that wrecked the reef that drowned the people that scared Grubby Clark into declaring Blank Monday so now you gotta ride epoxy!

Facebook founder linked to land that, in a roundabout way, brought the surf industry to its knees in 2006.

By Ben Marcus

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Santa Cruz big-wave legend and snowboarder Ken “Skindog” Collins issues ominous warnings from mountains as record snowfalls cause chaos in US, “Taking alternative routes to ski resorts is suicide. There is no way in, only death!”

“Eleven on the sketch meter. People can die digging out their driveway!”

By Ben Marcus

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Solo Surfer killed by suspected Great White shark in Christmas Eve attack at “The Pit” in Morro Bay, California

A lonely death.

By Ben Marcus

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Californian surfer almost killed by Great White near San Francisco details long road back to waves, “I wear a brace that keeps my foot at a 90 degree angle. I’ve been trying a comical grandpa-like popup at home!”

Getting attacked by a Great White shark is traumatic, emotionally, physically, financially and futuristically.

By Ben Marcus

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Long read: A treatise on Andy Warhol’s waxploitation film San Diego Surf, “We middle-class people really suffer watching you surfers out there…Can’t you just piss on us?”

Warhol soft-core with male homosexual overtones, campy surfsploitation, extremely funny in places.

By Ben Marcus

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Malibu surf icon Moondoggie whose legend was dramatised in seminal teen movie “Gidget” and who had disappeared at Venice Beach prompting an outpouring of grief found alive!

A Hanukah miracle!

By Ben Marcus

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Malibu surf icon whose legend was dramatised in seminal teen movie “Gidget” reported missing somewhere in Venice area! “It is possible he is suffering from some age-related mental frailty and is wandering the streets of west Los Angeles”

Help bring a cultural icon home.

By Ben Marcus

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On Dora: “Would a racist support Robert Kennedy or a Nazi support the Democratic Party?

"If he claimed to be a Nazi and hating blacks, maybe it was Dora putting on a fright mask and saying Boo! to the surfing world…"

By Ben Marcus

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