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Active Hurricane Season Forecast(Comments Off)

May 29, 2010

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has forecast an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season this year. Forecasters are calling for 14 to 23 named storms in the 2010 hurricane season. An average year would only see 11 named storms (with top winds of 39 mph or higher) in the Atlantic Basin. Key factors in the formation of [...]

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Land of 1000 Lefts

In case you missed Brendon Bosworth’s article about a 6,800-mile trek from South Africa to Angola  in the February 2010 issue of Surfer, you can get a feel for that epic surf mission from this video, posted on the venerable South African surf magazine ZigZag. Angola – Empty lefts! from Zag Tv on Vimeo. What [...]

Photo Surfari to Rincon Sold Out

The surf photography workshop conducted by noted lensman Art Brewer in Rincon, Puerto Rico has sold out. The Action Surf Photography workshop produced in conjunction with New York’s School of Visual Arts is scheduled for March 6-14. Fourteen students will pay $2,500 each (airfare not included) to get tips from one of the most-published surf [...]

Supertubes Switches on for ASP

After a rocky start, Day 9 of the RipCurl contest at Peniche, Portugal, turned up with the goods. The world’s top 44 surfers competed in barreling 3-meter waves at Supertubos today. Australians Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson are numbers one and two in the ASP rankings now. Tomorrow should decide the contest for the men. [...]


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