http://www.swellsearch.com Surf Blog Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:33:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.swellsearch.com/storm-surf/ In the last 20 years there have been 6 fatal shark attacks off the coast of Western Australia. The Western Australian department of fisheries has come up with a novel solution to help warn of nearing sharks. Tag em and track them. Listening stations are to be ... http://www.swellsearch.com/great-white-shark-sms/ I have a friend who is learning to surf and someone gave him this old MR. I took a fancy to it, so swapped him one that was more suited to his beginner abilities. There's not much in the way of dimensions or anything on the board. "Bob Marggetts" ... http://www.swellsearch.com/mark-richards-80s-board/ Flash back to May last year when we actually had some decent waves. Today is big and chunky, but not as good as this. When are the winds, and swell going to line up next?? Here's several hollow right handers. It was cranking that day and not many ... http://www.swellsearch.com/may-last-year/ http://www.swellsearch.com/dane-reynolds-super-slo-mo/ The 80's was not the best of times for fashion or music.  When mixed with surfing there can be devastating consequences - this first video is a serious case in point.  I dare you to look away, be careful you don't start humming along! After watching this first one, I trawled ... http://www.swellsearch.com/ripping-the-pit/ http://www.swellsearch.com/insane-wa-surf/ I always tell people, make sure you have a back up. So I was playing around with the site, planning some modifications - got into the backend and the database.  Lo and behold I have successfully deleted the database, and nary a backup in site. So that's only a couple of years ... http://www.swellsearch.com/from-scratch/