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When the Hawaiian natives invented surfing they did it naked. When Mark Twain visited Hawaii in 1866 he wrote “In one place we came upon a large company of naked natives, of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf- bathing.” Clearly the Hawaiians were on to a good thing. Too bad the missionaries messed that up.

Dolphins have been filmed playing an impromptu game of football... using a jellyfish as an improvised ball. A team of marine biologists were astonished to see a dolphin swim under a jellyfish and with a quick flick of its tail shoot it out of the water.

When you swim with the sharks, be prepared to get bitten. That's a warning one worker at a sea life centre might be thinking he should have listened to.

The 23-year-old suffered multiple wounds after he was 'ambushed' by an angel shark while diving in its tank. He was left nursing between 15 and 20 lacerations on an arm, each roughly 1cm long.

More than 100 surfers rode a wave at the Earthwave beach festival in Muizenberg, Cape Town on Sunday to break the Guinness World Record for the ‘most surfers riding the same wave’.

“We estimated that there were more than 120 surfers on the fifth of the seven waves surfed at Muizenberg during Earthwave,’ said Paul Botha of Kahuna Promotions, the founders of the event that leverages the publicity generated by the world record attempt to promote awareness of climate change and sustainable lifestyles.

Since declaring their intention to recapture the Guinness World Record for the 'most surfers riding the same wave' at the Earthwave festival to be staged at Muizenberg Beach on Sunday 4 October, Cape Town surfers have been putting in hours of preparation for the event.

Jason Starr received a U.S. patent this past February for a new sport he invented called surf skiing, which uses waves as a force for skiing.

"I was talking to my woman at home,” said Spencer. “She didn’t believe me at first; I actually hung up on her cause it was barreling so hard I didn’t want to fall and lose the phone"

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Slater's Perfect 10pt ride in epic conditions, then perhaps you need to check out Munich's Surf Open.

The best way to deal with our nemesis is to understand him.

Craigslist has some "Surf Training Tools/Devices" available in Potrero Hill for any of you that might be in the market.

A San Diego teenager severely beat her 60-year-old mother after she refused to take her surfing, and doctors give the woman a 50 percent chance of survival, a prosecutor told a Superior Court judge Wednesday.

A new spin on crowd surfing, courtesy of our friends in Japan.

Have you ever looked at something wondering if you could do X? For over 10 years I looked at this vessel and the predecessor wondering if you could surf behind it. Confirmed!

To the uninitiated, the scene on a recent morning along the St. Lawrence River in Montreal might have inspired confusion. Behind the striking modular apartment complex known as Habitat 67, a crowd of surfers slipped into wet suits and waxed up their boards, 500 miles from the nearest ocean beach.