Surfing for science: Smartfin collects data for climate change research
Surfers become citizen scientists by attaching fins to their boards that collect data from the ocean.
View ArticleAustralian big wave surfer Ross Clarke-Jones concussed after being washed...
Ross Clarke-Jones is pounded against rocks and repeatedly dragged underwater after coming off his board in big swell at the notorious Nazare break in Portugal.
View ArticleMick Fanning, three-time world champion surfer, announces retirement at 36
The three-time world champion and one of Australia's best-known surfers says he will retire from surfing's world championship tour after competing in two final events.
View ArticleMick Fanning's retirement: Kelly Slater pays tribute to 'great champion'
It takes a bit to get a response from Kelly Slater, but it is not every day Mick Fanning announces his retirement either.
View ArticleMick Fanning gives surfboard away to delighted young fan
Three-time world champion Mick Fanning gives a young fan in search of an autograph more than he bargained for, handing him the surfboard he just used in his second-last event before retiring.
View ArticleJulian Wilson deals with the pain to win season-opening World Surf League...
Australian surfer Julian Wilson deals with the pain of an injured shoulder to win the World Surf League season-opening event on the Gold Coast.
View Article'Don't hesitate': How giant-wave surfer Ross Clarke-Jones glides on a wall of...
He has broken his nose, fractured ribs, snapped a bicep and suffered numerous neck and spinal injuries — and at 51 big-wave surfer Ross Clarke-Jones has no plans to stop.
View ArticleCyclone Marcus: Surfers gear up for rare super swell along WA's south west coast
Perfect surfing conditions are predicted this weekend thanks to Tropical Cyclone Marcus as the category five system causes wind waves to barrel down the western coastline.
View ArticleWooden surfboard masterclass reconnects riders with surfing's sustainable...
It takes four days of patient gluing, shaping and sanding for these surfers to realise their dream of riding their own wooden surfboard.
View ArticleBondi surf break kickstarts 'surfing revolution' in war-torn Ivory Coast
Hadi Beydoun never expected to become a surf entrepreneur, but he's brought Australian surfing culture to Ivory Coast, where many of his countrymen are still afraid of the ocean.
View ArticleMick Fanning bows out of surfing as runner-up in Bells Beach thriller
Three-time world champion Mick Fanning just misses out on a fairytale finish to his career, ending his time on the professional surfing circuit as runner-up at the World Surf League event at Bells Beach.
View Article'Cheers Mick': Fanning exits the surfing world with a legacy to be proud of
After arriving on the professional surfing circuit as a wiry teenager in 2001, Mick Fanning brought a new level of competitiveness to the sport and took the surfing world along for the ride, writes...
View ArticleQuobba surfboard fins tipped to revolutionise the world of surfing
Two Australian surfing mates who spent almost 40 years researching and producing a new design of surfboard fin believe they are set to revolutionise the world of surfing.
View ArticleCommonwealth Games: Sport at its best when it transcends the single-minded...
You might not have believed it from the actions of our cricketers, but the Commonwealth Games has helped prove sport is about much more than celebrating individual supremacy in a field of the most able.
View ArticleIan 'Kanga' Cairns on surfing's transformation from a 'pastime for bludgers'...
Ian "Kanga" Cairns reflects on helping to transform surfing from a "pastime for bludgers" to a multi-million dollar international sport.
View ArticleTwo Margaret River Pro surfers fear for safety after shark attacks near...
Two of the world's top surfers, Italo Ferreira and Gabriel Medina, say they don't feel comfortable competing in Western Australia's Margaret River region in the wake of the two shark attacks yesterday.
View ArticleKelly Slater issues WA shark warning as Margaret River Pro surfing row deepens
Champion US surfer Kelly Slater weighs into the debate over the decision to cancel the Margaret River Pro, saying a recent mass whale stranding nearby means waters in the area will be "sharkier" in...
View ArticleYoung Ni-Vanuatu surfer attracts attention after wowing competition with...
A Ni-Vanuatu boy who captured online attention after progressing into the final stages of a local surfing competition with an old, duct-taped surfboard is gifted a new board from a fellow surf...
View ArticleShark encounters off WA coast more than double over summer, autumn
Shark attacks and encounters off the WA coast have more than doubled over summer and autumn statistics show, with a mass whale stranding and a salmon run blamed for turning the state's South West into...
View ArticleBiggest wave ever surfed: Rodrigo Koxa awarded prize for record-breaking ride
Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa claims the major prize at the Big Wave Awards in California, with officials declaring the wave he rode in Nazare, Portugal last November was the biggest ever surfed.
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