Blue Antidote

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Feature • 38 min read

Two intertwined surf lives marked by trauma—and the ocean as tonic.

By Michael Moore • Artwork by Nishant Choksi

Volume 34 Issue 2 (2025)

35.3
Stage Name

The passions of the Waxhead.

By Phil Jarratt
34.2
Space is the Place

High-orbit airs and galactic flash.

By NE Kachel
33.5
The Last Urchin Diver

Surfer and bottom-scratcher Conner Rhoads is one…

By Tony John Andrews
31.3
Inlets of the Mind

Meet Cocoa Beach’s Bruce Reynolds.

By Dan Reiter

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Volume 34 Issue 2

In this issue

We roll up to Santa Barbara for an audience with an outspoken former surf star, slide along with a Japanese logger, patrol Namibia’s coast to free entangled sea mammals, view a surf resort photographer’s tropical money shots, hang at a prolific garage rocker’s pad, learn how the ocean can treat post-traumatic stress disorder, and more.

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