Sometimes A Great Ocean

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Chronicling the Oversized Swells and Egos at Nelscott Reef

By Gavin Ehringer

Volume 22 Issue 5 (2013)

34.4
Surfboards on Fire

When the notorious riot broke out at the 1986 OP…

By Tony John Andrews
32.5
Finding Andrew

Thirty years of documenting the woods, the…

By Biddle Duke
32.2
Arruza Light

During a still-Holocene era of surf photography,…

By Matthew Shaw
27.4
Sunburned Mercury

A chance discovery in a Jack London archive might…

By Sam George

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Volume 22 Issue 5

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This issue starts with a little reminder that you can still bum around the South Pacific on tramp steamers and passenger ferries, finding hidden islands with unpronounceable names and waves you’ve never seen before. Inside lies more of the unseen: from pastoral Uruguay to grotesque Oregon, the art of wave-painting to the science of wave-hunting.

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