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Swell Alert - Weekend Surf Forecast
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Weekend Surf Forecast 21 - 23 February, 2020
There's more late summer goodness in the forecast this weekend.
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Swell Alert: Deep East Coast Low to Deliver Another Hiding to the NSW Coast
Early to mid-next week it's highly likely we'll see yet another large to heavy swell event
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Swell Alert: A Multitude of Swell Trains Converge along the Eastern Seaboard
The surf is tripling up this weekend.
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SWELL ALERT: Big SE groundswell inbound across the NSW Coast
A power-packed SE groundswell is brewing for the entire East Coast this weekend.
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Bali, Indonesia Surf Forecast 11 - 25 September, 2019
Goldilocks zone surfing conditions set in across Indonesia into mid-September.
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Bali, Indonesia Surf Forecast 28 August - 5 September, 2019
There's no let-up in SSW groundswell over the winter/spring transition across Indonesia.
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Forecaster Blog: Tasman Low Hammers the East Coast All Week
A deep low is dropping anchor over the central Tasman Sea..
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Forecaster Blog: Deep East Coast Low Wreaks Havoc Next Week
An impending East Coast Low looms large for the NSW coast next week.
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Forecaster Blog Updated: Tropical Cyclone Gretel Develops This Weekend
Tropical cyclone Gretel is about to form over the Coral Sea this weekend.
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Forecaster Blog: Potential Coral Sea Cyclone Hints at Large/ Heavy Easterly Swell Mid February
Easterly swell goes from one level to the next into mid February.
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Forecasting Tutorial: Reading Wave Models
Gain a deeper understanding into how wave models work and how to read them.
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Forecasting Tutorial: Air Masses
Welcome to our first installment on meteorology basics: Swell is generated by wind and wind is the result of air pressure.
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Forecasting Tutorial: Wave Period Explained
Coastalwatch's chief swell forecaster, Ben Macartney, scratches beneath the sea surface looking at wave period.
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Swell Forecast: It's Happening, The Great Indian Ocean Double Up
Incoming double swell for Vic, WA & Indo
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SWELL FORECAST: Incoming Southern Ocean Bomb Low
Deep low-pressure system dramatically deepens generating swell
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Forecast Video: Major Swell Event For South Australia & Victoria
An insight into what conditions to expect
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Watch: Episode 6 of Rivals – Shaun Cansdell at Home on the Coffs Coast
The best surf tv show format keeps on rolling!
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Watch Soli Bailey Ride Beautiful North Coast Surf and Talk Surfboards, Career, and Growing Up
What's Going On? Episode 2
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Watch: Episode 5 of Rivals – Glen 'Micro' Hall at Home on the Central Coast
The supercoach turns back into underdog competitor!
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Watch: Gold Coast QS Surfer Pacha Light Gets in Touch With Ecuadorian Roots
Including surfing some pretty dreamy and relatively empty righthanders
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Watch Tom Carroll, Nathan Hedge and More Pull Into Massive Tubes on This Sydney Beachie's "Day of Days"
"I think it's psycho, it's that thick and round..." says Nathan Hedge.
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Video: Is This the Greatest Wave You've Ever Seen Surfed In Sydney?
The Deadman's clip you've been waiting for is here!
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Wave of the Week: Nick Vasicek's Backhand Funnel
The backhand barrel master at his very best only a week or so ago near home on the Gold Coast.
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Watch: Episode 6 of Rivals – Shaun Cansdell at Home on the Coffs Coast
The best surf tv show format keeps on rolling!
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Watch Soli Bailey Ride Beautiful North Coast Surf and Talk Surfboards, Career, and Growing Up
What's Going On? Episode 2
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Watch: Episode 5 of Rivals – Glen 'Micro' Hall at Home on the Central Coast
The supercoach turns back into underdog competitor!
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Watch: Gold Coast QS Surfer Pacha Light Gets in Touch With Ecuadorian Roots
Including surfing some pretty dreamy and relatively empty righthanders
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Watch the Epic New Lid Vid – Tales of the Boogie Men
Plus a great interview with the GOAT Mike Stewart
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Watch: Rip Curl's Eccentric New Search Movie, 'Postcards From Morgs'
Starring Mick Fanning, Tyler Wright, Owen Wright and more
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Watch: Torren Martyn's Motorcycle Surf Roadie Through New Zealand, Exclusive New Surf Film
‘Lost Track’ is yet another, soulful wanderlusty classic from Torren and needessenials
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Watch: MP Documentary Feature – 'Searching For Michael Peterson'
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Alex Gray Cops A Massive Cloudbreak Flogging
When it's this big in Fiji you really want to make these ones
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How A Real Food Diet Can Affect Our Surf Performance For The Better – Surf Coach Series With Nic Laidlaw
Simple things you can look for to get yourself into better food patterns.
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The Importance of Breathing Correctly – Surf Coach Series With Nic Laidlaw
When we’re breathing incorrectly it can have adverse affects on our posture, on our mood and on our energy.
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Finding The Why – Surf Coach Series With Nic Laidlaw
Understanding why we're out there, could lead to better, more fulfilling surfing.
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Smashed In Vicco: A Couple Of The Lockdown State’s Finest Get Caught In The Mangler
For a good chunk of this winter, it seemed like the Vicco crew had become the poor cousins of the surfing world...
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Master and Apprentice: Bethany Hamilton and Erin Brooks
When Erin Brooks was nine and at the very beginning of her surfing journey, she met Bethany Hamilton.
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Mick Fanning: Save This Shark
This is Mick Fanning’s take on that crazy incident at J-Bay in 2015 - the most watched moment in surfing history.
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Watch: Episode 6 of Rivals – Shaun Cansdell at Home on the Coffs Coast
The best surf tv show format keeps on rolling!
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Smashed In Vicco: A Couple Of The Lockdown State’s Finest Get Caught In The Mangler
For a good chunk of this winter, it seemed like the Vicco crew had become the poor cousins of the surfing world...
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Master and Apprentice: Bethany Hamilton and Erin Brooks
When Erin Brooks was nine and at the very beginning of her surfing journey, she met Bethany Hamilton.
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Mick Fanning: Save This Shark
This is Mick Fanning’s take on that crazy incident at J-Bay in 2015 - the most watched moment in surfing history.
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Sean Doherty: The East Coast White Attacks – Where To From Here
The situation is crying out for moderation.
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Sean Doherty: The Question of Flight or Fight When It Comes To Great Whites
The Julian Wilson-George Greenough Effect
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Sean Doherty: SMART Drumlines Were Phenomenally Successful in Targeting White Sharks, So Why Were They Pulled Out?
Here's what's happening with NSW's shark strategy
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Nick Carroll: We Know About the Sharks, What About the People?
A UTS research project aims to find out how people — not sharks — on the North Coast have changed their behaviour since 2015’s nightmare
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Sean Doherty: The Problem Is Bigger Than Wamberal
The Vexed Issue of Saving Beachside Property and the Undermining of Future Plans for Sea Level Rise
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Nick Carroll: Are We on the Edge of a New Era in Surf Environmentalism? Thanks to Some Dumb Virus?
The Plague retreats, part one in a series
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Sean Doherty: The Bight Bites Back
"It certainly wasn’t the phone call I was expecting on a lazy Tuesday morning."
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Have Your Say on the Future of the Superbank
A Message from the NSW and Queensland Governments about the Tweed Sand Bypassing Transition Project
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Mason Ho Surfs Hurricane Swell Chaos, Italo's Andy Tribute, and Soli Bailey Ripping At Home
This Week In Surfing: Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was September 11 2020
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Outrageous Nias, Rasta's Tripped Out Crop Circles Board, and Is Jackson Dorian the Wave Pool Prince?
This Week In Surfing: Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was September 4 2020
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Why Rip Curl's New Vid Is the Best Thing Since Doped Youth/Sliced Bread, Mick Fanning Glides a McTavish Single-Fin, and Kelly Slater Sprints up the Beach!
This Week In Surfing: Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was August 28 2020
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Paddle Bombs and Tow-Ins as East Coast Low Lights up Sydney Yet Again
There had been barely a moment for to collect your breath before Monday hit, and now there's more coming!
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Video & Gallery: Locals Rule Day of the Year (So Far) at Padang Padang
Firing Bali Is Equal Parts Stoke and Torture
- Sean Doherty
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Sean Doherty: The East Coast White Attacks – Where To From Here
The situation is crying out for moderation.
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Sean Doherty: "The Guys at Narrabeen Really Set a Direction in My Life", Mark Richards in 1971
Another excerpt from the wonderful new book, Golden Days: The Best Years of Australian Surfing
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Sean Doherty: “You should come to Australia and surf against Pam and Jodie", Wendy Botha in 1984
Another excerpt from the wonderful new book, Golden Days: The Best Years of Australian Surfing
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Sean Doherty: The Question of Flight or Fight When It Comes To Great Whites
The Julian Wilson-George Greenough Effect
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Nick Carroll: After 30 Years of Thinking About It, Rabbit Hops Into Politics
“I’m Going To Bring All My Passion and Competitive Juices To This”
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Video: The Fizzlot kids – SW Grom Bash
A stoked out portrait of Australian Junior Surfing in the year 2018.
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Sean Doherty: "The Guys at Narrabeen Really Set a Direction in My Life", Mark Richards in 1971
Another excerpt from the wonderful new book, Golden Days: The Best Years of Australian Surfing
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Sean Doherty: “Girls Can Be Grommets Too!”, Pam Burridge in 1979
An excerpt from the wonderful new book, Golden Days: The Best Years of Australian Surfing
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Tested: Quiksilver Mens Highline Pro 1mm Zipperless Steamer Wetsuit, Eight Months Down the Track
The Wear and Tear Update
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"I Think What’s Coming for Surfing Is an Upwelling of New Voices and Perspectives – Those Who Have Often Been Excluded From Belonging to Core Surf Culture"
Lauren L Hill discusses her new book on the Rise of Female Surfing, She Surf
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The Coastalwatch Isolation Salvation – No.7
From a classic Kirra swell from the vault, to the history of rock-offs, here's five quick distractions to keep the stoke burning.
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The Top Five Reasons Why Mason Ho Is So Magical
Ronnie and Vaughan are back for Season 2 of The Hold Down
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The Coastalwatch Isolation Salvation – No.5
Surf Fitness, Epic Aussie Swells, Surfing Video Games, and the Greatest Mick Fanning Clip of All Time?
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"I Think What’s Coming for Surfing Is an Upwelling of New Voices and Perspectives – Those Who Have Often Been Excluded From Belonging to Core Surf Culture"
Lauren L Hill discusses her new book on the Rise of Female Surfing, She Surf
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Who Paddled Out First at Jeffreys Bay?
How it became one of the most famous pointbreaks in the world...
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Shane Dorian On Mexican Surf Trips Under Covid
This is what it's like to do a little strike mission in 2020
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Video & Gallery: Locals Rule Day of the Year (So Far) at Padang Padang
Firing Bali Is Equal Parts Stoke and Torture
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One Week of Empty Perfection: A Video Diary from the Mentawai Islands
Video line-ups of a ridiculous swell in an unprecedented time
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Padang Padang Fires up as Lockdowns Lift in Bali
A gallery of perfect Padang Padang awakening the day COVID lockdowns lift
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One Week of Empty Perfection: A Video Diary from the Mentawai Islands
Video line-ups of a ridiculous swell in an unprecedented time
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Gallery: Samoa – November 2014
Sunny days, offshore winds, no crowds and fresh swells in November? Welcome to Samoa…
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