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Staff Mark Healey spends an inordinate amount of time chasing big waves. He’s logged more time surfing waves of serious consequence than almost anyone else. Remember THAT Puerto wave? Or THAT Pipeline wave? Yeah, he’s logged time on huge waves. He’s calculated about his surfing, though — as one must be to last in his business — so when the swell that would eventually turn into one of the biggest and best weekends Hawaii has ever seen popped up on the horizon, Healey didn’t just throw himself headlong into it. He’s spent his life preparing for moments like these, and t...

  The surf got big in the Hawaiian Islands this weekend. That might be an understatement. All the attention has been on Maui. But by the looks of it, Oahu stayed clean and beautiful. John John, Koa Rothman and Mikey Wright, among others, were apparently making good choices and staying close to home. Erik Knutson captured John John paddling into this picture-perfect wave with nary a drop of water misplaced. (It’s uncanny how much this looks like Fiji.) We’re not sure if it’s Outside Alligators, Himalayas, or a number of other outer reef locales. We do know it’s big, clean, and while h...

Hotel Quarantine For Australian Tour Surfers Think they have room service here? elsewhere // Jan 14, 2021 Words by Jed Smith With the Hawaiian leg of the rejigged 2021 World Tour coming to a premature end, most of Australia’s tour talent has returned home and begun their two-week stay in the hotel quarantine.  Julian Wilson is shacked up with filmer Jimmy Lees. Wade Carmichael is quarantining with filmer, Jess Little. Connor O’Leary is flying solo, though with the added luxury of an exercise bike arranged by Surfing Aust...

An officer in Staffordshire, central England, labeled the thieves the "world's unluckiest burglars" and likened them to the ill-fated crooks in the movie "Home Alone."

A Surfer Rescues a Woman Caught in a Rip Current An Australian surfer named Mikey Wright was in Hawaii filming the ocean when he noticed a woman caught in a rip current. People were trying to rescue her with no luck, so he dropped his phone and ran into the water, and pulled her to safety. ( Warning! There's an S-word in the first clip . That's the one where he drops the phone and runs into the water. The second clip is him actually rescuing her.) . A Dad Pretends to Get Vaccinated So His Daughter Won't Be Scared This clip has been around for a while, but it's still heartwarming . . . and...