The Line Cutters

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Along the points of the Skeleton Coast, Ocean Conservation Namibia founders Naude and Katja Dreyer and their team work to unsnarl the marine plastics-pollution crisis—one seal at a time.

By Will Bendix

Volume 34 Issue 2 (2025)

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Chris Carter, the former Surfing magazine editor…

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Emboldened by raw talent and progressive…

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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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