Forecasting Tutorial: Reading Wave Models
Gain a deeper understanding into how wave models work and how to read them.
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.
Forecasting Tutorial: Wave Period Explained
Coastalwatch's chief swell forecaster, Ben Macartney, scratches beneath the sea surface looking at wave period.
Forecasting Tutorial: Great circles
Waves and swells in the open sea travel in a straight line in the direction of the wind that created them. A straight line drawn on a sphere linking any two points is known as a great circle.
Watch: Episode 7 of Rivals – Bede Durbidge at Home in 4-5ft Straddie Barrels
The best surf tv show format keeps on rolling!
Smashed In Vicco: A Couple Of The Lockdown State’s Finest Get Caught In The Mangler
Master and Apprentice: Bethany Hamilton and Erin Brooks
Mick Fanning: Save This Shark
Watch: Episode 6 of Rivals – Shaun Cansdell at Home on the Coffs Coast
Sean Doherty: The East Coast White Attacks – Where To From Here
Nick Carroll: The Terrible Attack at Greenmount Will Blow the Shark Narrative To Pieces, Again
A Statement Regarding Coastalwatch Surf Cams and the Fatal Shark Incident at Rainbow Bay
Watch Soli Bailey Ride Beautiful North Coast Surf and Talk Surfboards, Career, and Growing Up
Shane Dorian On Mexican Surf Trips Under Covid
Local Surfer Dies in Coolangatta Shark Attack
Watch: Episode 5 of Rivals – Glen 'Micro' Hall at Home on the Central Coast
Clint Kimmins Tells His Story on Jamie Mitchell's Podcast
Sean Doherty: "The Guys at Narrabeen Really Set a Direction in My Life", Mark Richards in 1971
Nick Carroll: The WSL Is Still Planning a Pipe/Maui Kickoff this Hawaiian Winter, but How?
Outrageous Nias, Rasta's Tripped Out Crop Circles Board, and Is Jackson Dorian the Wave Pool Prince?
Watch: Gold Coast QS Surfer Pacha Light Gets in Touch With Ecuadorian Roots
Dana Brown on His Dad Bruce, and a Life of Endless Summers
Watch Mick Fanning Surf a McTavish Bluebird at Pumping Lennox
Watch the Epic New Lid Vid – Tales of the Boogie Men
The Last Man in the Mentawai Islands Scores More Insane Covid Barrels
Watch: Episode 4 of Rivals – Jay Bottle Thompson Hits Go for His Two Hour Burleigh Heat
Watch: Rip Curl's Eccentric New Search Movie, 'Postcards From Morgs'
Watch: Episode 3 of Rivals – Nathan Hedge at Home at Narrabeen
Sean Doherty: The Question of Flight or Fight When It Comes To Great Whites
How a Lost Surfboard Floated from Hawaii to the Philippines
Nick Carroll: After 30 Years of Thinking About It, Rabbit Hops Into Politics
Watch: Episode 2 of Rivals – Josh Kerr's Best Three Waves at Duranbah
Gallery: Four Pumping Days In WA
Soli Bailey Rips and Reflects in This Beautiful Morgan Maassen Short Film
Behind the Design of FCS's Space Fighter Looking New H4 Fin
Surfing’s Very Own Rescue Course Goes Online
Interview: West Aussie Shark Survivor, "Those Blokes Are Absolute Heroes and Without a Doubt Saved My Life"
Watch Mick, Parko and More Go to Battle in Episode 1 of New Aussie Surf Show, 'Rivals'
Tested: Quiksilver Mens Highline Pro 1mm Zipperless Steamer Wetsuit, Eight Months Down the Track
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...
Daydream The Indo Season with Riley Laing & Crew's Swell Expedition
Offshore barrels and dreamy setups
Padang Comes to Life as Late Season Swell hits Bali
Golden hour at perfect Padang Padang - it's been a good week to be in Bali... Photo: Childs
Video: The Fizzlot kids – SW Grom Bash
A stoked out portrait of Australian Junior Surfing in the year 2018.
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.
