Meet Martin Kawaler, an Australian musician who decided to start recording ocean sounds to help to cope with tinnitus pain. The 35-year-old from St Kilda, an inner-city beachside suburb of the metropolitan area of Melbourne, runs a platform called Oceanscapes available at oceanscapesaudio.com. Kawaler released several albums of these recordings on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon. […]

The World Surf League (WSL) decided to postpone or cancel all events, at all levels of competition, through the end of June. “Where and when we will run this year is still very much an open question, but we will continue to work with governments, world health authorities, and our local communities on returning to […]

The phenomenon is known as cold-stimulus headache but is also commonly referred to as brain freeze. The cold stimulus headache can be triggered when something cold stimulates any area of our head. It could be water, wind, but also drink or even food. Although it is more common when our body is exposed to cold […]

The president of the Portuguese Surfing Federation (FPS) wants surfers back in the water when the State of Emergency is lifted. João Aranha wrote a letter to the Portuguese government, to the president of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and to the national parliament with a set of recommendations to authorize the surfers’ return […]

Byron Bay filmmaker Darius Devas released a stunning ocean video portrait in response to the current Covid-19 pandemic. “Ocean Medicine” combines two of the Australian’s passions – filming the ocean and mental health. The project was inspired by Devas’ response to the Covid-19 crisis and the national lockdown that followed.

Are you spending too much time sitting in an office desk? Are you feeling lazy and bored on your couch at home with nothing else to do? Let’s keep those muscles ready for the next surf session. Gyms are closed, waves aren’t pumping, you’re still recovering from an injury, and too much desk time is […]

Surfing therapy dog Ricochet has joined forces with Pawsitive Teams to provide virtual canine therapy to doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers, and first responders on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pawsitive Teams is a service and therapy dog program founded in San Diego in 1997. The partnership between Ricochet and the organization directly […]

The history of surfing will always remember Wavegarden as the developer of the world’s first public, surf-oriented wave pool. It was not the first to design and generate artificial waves, and not the first to pump surfable waves outside the ocean. But Wavegarden was the fastest to deliver a sustainable and commercially profitable surf lagoon […]

Keala Kennelly was one of the first female surfers to ride the most dangerous waves on the planet. She has been spotted taking on the biggest and heaviest mountains of moving water at Jaws/Peahi, Teahupoo, Mavericks, Puerto Escondido, and Nazaré. The fearless Hawaiian is also the first woman to win a trophy in an open-gender […]