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A group of kids, perhaps teenagers, frolic on the shore with stormy seas in the background. Then, multiple large waves – looking more like mountains of water – pummel the rocks, sending whitewater cascading over the natural pool, sweeping the kids up the beach.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 11

‘Women of the Sea’ Film Fund Offers £10,000 for Female Surf Stories

This one is for all the ladies out there: If you had £10,000 (approx USD$13,600) to make your next surf film, what story would you tell? If you don't have one in mind yet, now is the time to put pen to paper.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 11

How a 23-Year-Old Pro Surfer Beat Dane Reynolds at Firing Rincon (Video)

A few days after competing in the Pipeline Challenger event on the North Shore of Oahu, Dimitri Poulos drove up Highway 101 from his home in Ventura, entered Santa Barbara County, and tore Rincon to ribbons on the day of the year at the famed point break.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 11

Rare Mediterranean Swell Brings 'Dreamy' Waves to Barcelona (Video)

A powerful storm in the Mediterranean brought wild weather, and unusually large waves, to the typically tepid shores of Italy, Spain, and beyond. Cyclone Harry whipped up winds, and even created the biggest wave ever documented in the Mediterranean Sea.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 11

'Ride The Line': The Surf Film That’s All Gas, No Breaks

After a year of global tours, with premieres beamed into parking lots, back alleys and theaters from Bali to New York City, Blak Bear Surf Club’s “Ride the Line” is finally out for public consumption.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 11

Santa Barbara Surfer Rescued Clinging to Lobster Trap Over 1,000 Feet Out to Sea (Video)

On Saturday, a 26-year-old surfer was swept a quarter-mile out to sea amidst large waves in Santa Barbara, California. The unidentified individual survived.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 11

The $20k Shopping Trip That Led to Italo's Nike Sponsorship

In what must be one of the wildest sponsor me stories to ever go down, Italo Ferreira reveals how he spent $20,000 at Nike to "get their attention" before he officially joined as an official athlete.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 11

Santa Cruz’s Peter Mel Stuns with ‘Most Watched’ Super Bowl Surf Clip (Video)

Despite the controversy surrounding Bad Bunny’s halftime show, or the somewhat boring, defense-heavy performance on the field, Super Bowl LX broke records.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 11

Watch: A Verbal and Visual Testament to the Virtues of a Twinzer

The first board Victor Bernardo took from Album’s San Clemente HQ was Twinsman, the user-friendly but highly ripable twin fin that’s become one of the brand’s most recognizable models. This board featured below is not that, but it’s close.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 10

20ft Wave Flips Stolen Boat, Sailors Go Overboard in Oregon (Video)

Harrowing scenes out of Oregon, after the US Coast Guard was forced to make a dramatic rescue. A boat – allegedly stolen – capsized by a 20-foot wave. The Coast Guard happened to be in the area, conducting training exercises when the distress call came in.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 10

Gabriel Medina Has a New Sponsor…But It’s Not What You Think

It’s been a month and change since Gabriel Medina parted ways with his sponsor, Rip Curl, a partnership that lasted 17 years through three-time world champ’s career.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 10

Police Patrol Lunada Bay Surfers with Billy Clubs During 10ft Swell (Video)

In recent years, the upscale Southern California hamlet of Palos Verdes Estates became ground zero for the debate surrounding surf localism. A local surf gang, dubbed the “Bay Boys,” had reigned supreme at Lunada Bay – slashing tires, throwing rocks, verbally and physically assaulting outsiders who dared surf the wave.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 9

12-Foot Bombs Detonate on San Diego’s Premier Surf Spot (Video)

It’s been somewhat of a slow, weird winter in terms of waves. Talk to any surfer – particularly those in Hawaii and Europe, Southern and Northern California – and they’ll tell you the same.

Joel Tudor News / SURFER / February 9

Pine Ridge Lakota Horsemen Experience First Ever Surf Session with Joel Tudor (Video)

It was an unfortunate turn of events that led to an unlikely scenario where five young Lakota men learned to surf with Joel Tudor and Ewe Long. The backstory involves Joel’s good friend Nate Bressler, who founded a program called Sage to Saddle with legendary Lakota horseman, Stan Brewer.

Surfing News / WorldSurfLeague.com / February 9

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Surfing News / SURFER / February 9

Big Wave Surfers Score 25-Foot Todos Santos: ‘As Good As It Gets’ (Photos)

Over the weekend, a handful of the world’s best big wave surfers assembled in Ensenada, the quaint port city in Baja, Mexico. The raison d'être? To compete in a specialty surf contest, the likes of which are rarely seen in today’s big wave surfing scene.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 9

Justine Dupont Hospitalized After Horrific Wipeout at 25ft Todos Santos (Video)

I was sitting on a boat in the channel, when the women’s final kicked off at the 2026 Thriller at Killers big wave surfing event. Only a few minutes into the heat, French charger Justine Dupont took off on a bomb, got hung up on the lip, and went tumbling.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 9

Watch: 9 Minutes of Eithan Osborne Thrashing Mexican Point Breaks

“Eithan is the kinda surfer that runs out to the session whether it's onshore and 2 foot or offshore and 12 foot,” reads the video description written by the Chapter 11 TV overlords.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 9

The Skate-Inspired Rhapsodic Surfboard Beauty of Beau DiFiore

In 2019, Beau DiFiore packed up his 1984 Volkswagen Vanagon in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, and like many a young man before, headed west, girlfriend and soon-to-be wife at his side.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 9

The Ice Sea: Surfing in the Frozen Tundra With Dylan Graves

The Barents Sea, also known as the Ice Sea, lies between the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, and is well above the Arctic Circle. Even for cold water purists, it’s a place of extremes.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 9

How the Ocean is Surprisingly Offsetting Our Carbon Dioxide

Modern science more or less agrees that the oceans, whatever acidic troubles they may be facing, bear their own reactionary armor in the form of calcium carbonate—the very stuff we chew up and send down the hatch when we humans have overdone it with the acids, too.

Surfing News / SURFER / February 9

Shark Attack Survivor Loses Leg, Comes off Life Support: ‘Long Journey Ahead’

A few weeks back, 27-year-old Andre de Ruyter was surfing near Manly Beach, Australia when he was attacked by a suspected bull shark. Fellow surfers in