Surfing is everything. The last time I posted this fact one person said it wasn’t it everything at all, it was just ‘something’. I felt angry, angry that he clearly wasn’t having enough fun. I mean technically he’s right as apart from actually surfing the wave there is the whole buying surfboards, wetsuits, travelling, hanging on the beach, bantering out back with your mates and getting a cool beers at sunset, and stuff like that. AND if you want to get deep you have to look at it as means of self expression, a dance, an art form, an escape, a sport, a therapy and a sub culture. A life outside of surfing is, well… a black hole of despair clawing and gnawing at your very soul like a giant ravenous RAT who has just got a off a ghost ship full of other giant ravenous rats. People go in there all sparkly eyed, tanned, happy and come out as bankers, MP”s and Facebook ranters. That’s how bad it is. Never go there my friend. Don’t be that disbeliever.
So you see “surfing, and all that..” is everything. But for short we’ll just say “surfing is everything”.
C-Skins have officially signed Dion Atkinson, which will see the South Australian covered in C-Skins rubber at the colder events throughout the 2014 ASP WT.
Atkinson has spent years hunting the heavy slabs that Australia’s southern deserts serve up and his mixture of rail work and ability in the pit are well suited to the hardcore WCT stop-offs of Margie’s and Bells Beach that lie waiting on the Aussie leg.
When asked in a recent interview how he felt about the new season Dion commented “I’m not feeling any pressure, you strive so hard to get to this point, now I’ve got the opportunity I’m going to embrace it and enjoy every moment. I’m stoked to be working with C-Skins Wetsuits, not only because they believe in me, but because wetsuits are such an important part of my surfing and they have to right for me to perform at my best.”
Tomas Martin who heads up C-Skins Wetsuits Australia, in Byron Bay said “The C-Skins team are stoked to have Dion surfing our wetsuits and from what we have seen from Dion so far we believe we have a great long term partnership ahead. Dion’s attitude towards his ‘CT’ rookie year perfectly reflects our brand – he’s the new kid on the block who’s passionate to succeed on the big stage and who’s going to have fun while doing it!”
Lydia the Great White is heading east. Travelling the rate of 380 miles in 72 hours she “could” be in Cork or Cornwall in seven days. *Note – all the papers are picking this up reporting the shark will be here in three. This is due to my bad maths at 7am this morning
Lydia the Great White is 4.4meters long weighs 2000lbs and is now 1,000 miles away and heading towards the British Isles. Tracked by the scientists at shark research organisation Oceach since the shark has travelled more than 19,000 miles since she was tagged.
Currently Lydia is closer to Europe than North America and is just above the North Atlantic ridge. If she swims over that then technically she will be the first recorded great white to cross the Atlantic.
“Meet Lydia. She’s 4.4 metres long, 2000lbs and could be coming on a European vacation!”
Although there has been much conjecture about great whites, who travel thousands of miles in their lifetime, appearing in British and Irish waters there has been no confirmed evidence. So Lydia is providing scientists with invaluable data.
Dr Gregory Skomal, senior fisheries biologist with Massachusetts Marine Fisheries, told BBC News: “No white sharks have crossed from west to east or east to west.
“Although Lydia is closer to Europe than North America, she technically does not cross the Atlantic until she crosses the mid-Atlantic ridge, which she has yet to do.
“She would be the first documented white shark to cross into the eastern Atlantic.””
The shark first tagged in Jacksonville, Florida and named after the founder of Bradley University, has travelled 380 miles in the last 72 hours. IF she continued at that rate she COULD be in the water off Cork or Cornwall less than three days.
You can track Lydia and other sharks world-wide on the fantastic Ocearch tracker here www.ocearch.org/#SharkTracker
Lets just hope mainstream media don’t blow this out of proportion, and she survives the factory trawlers.
It’s national book day so we thought we would show you a little bit of what we do! We have been publishing surfing magazines since 1992 and in the last few years we have branched out and begun publishing books, distributing them around the world!
Among our range are guide books like Surf Travel, history books like The Surfing Tribe, and cookery books like The Surf Café Cookbook. You can buy them here!
The Carve and SurfGirl teams are all dedicated surfers. Always have been, always will be. Our writers, photographers and contributors share that passion for surfing and love for the ocean. And whether we’re producing books, magazines or digital content, our mission statement is pretty simple: to keep our readers stoked.
We hope you like our books. Let us know what you think about them, we truly value your feedback.
Keep reading and stay stoked.
“I thought I was going to die. I thought I’d broke my back.”
Oh my days… Check James Holmer Cross’s horrifying wipeout at Pedra Branca 16 miles/30 kilometers south of Tasmania..”
The video was shot by Tim Bonython who took a last minute trip down to Pedra Branca, which is 26 kilometers off the South East Cape of Tasmania, Australia. Like some of the best big wave locations, Pedra Branca is extremely remote and is a really long way from help if anything goes wrong. 32 year-old Hobart local James Holmer-Cross came up close and personal with a gnarly wipe out, with a broken leg and torn ligaments, but luckily got to the surface and is frothing to get back out there.
Full story here http://www.surfingvisions.com/tbp/pedra-branca-tasmania-march-2014/
Lydia the Great White is heading east. Travelling the rate of 380 miles in 72 hours she “could” be in Cork or Cornwall in seven days. *Note – all the papers are picking this up reporting the shark will be here in three. This is due to my bad maths at 7am this morning
