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Tuesday 25 August 2015 What are the actual risks of a fatal shark encounter? According to this statistical analysis by windsurfer and surfer Dr Piet Streicher, the stats everyone bandies about are not ...
A special screening of the Wavescape Surf and Ocean Festival will pay homage to the people and places of Africa, with emphasis on Cape Town, at the Galileo Outdoor Cinema in early March. Wavescape ...
Wednesday 26 May 2022 The Guiness Book of Records has marked this ginormous beast ridden by Sebastian Steudtner in 2020 - but it may yet be overshadowed by a cracking lineup for Red Bull Big Wave ...
Friday 17 July 2020 Covid-19 has jump-started a new normal. Now with the WSL 2020 season officially cancelled, Spike spoke to WSL commissioner Pat O' Connell about what lies in their immediate future.
As some of the world’s top bodyboarders, including the GOAT Hawaiian Mike Stewart, prepare for the Tand Invitational at a remote spot up the West Coast, organisers say they will partner with Protect ...
The emotion showed today by King Kelly the Goat, 52, at the Margaret River Pro after losing to World #1 Griffin Colapinto and thus failing to make the Mid-season Cut, said everything. This was the ...
The Wavescape Surf and Ocean Festival and Wesgro invites aspiring filmmakers to attend the Blue Ocean Film Symposium on ocean and adventure film making in Cape Town tomorrow. The event, to be held at ...
The Wavescape Artboard Auction takes place tonight, and a huge crowd has booked for a night of ocean charity and comedy. See you there! This year’s team of artists is spearheaded by veteran Bretty ...
Our ungodly obsession with fossil fuel has come to a head as nation-wide protest action erupts around South Africa against the tsunami of oil and gas surveys and drilling around our coast, writes ...
The inaugural Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans public art project in Africa has left a lasting legacy for ocean conservation and community activism in Cape Town, writes Spike. PangeaSeed Foundation’s Sea ...
A chunky 4-6ft swell at Huntington Beach in California yesterday brought testing conditions for the 2023 ISA World Para Surfing Championships as the world's best para surfers battled it out on Day 3.
While most eyes were intensely focused on a huge swell up the East Coast, a group of kneelos made their way up the West Coast to the sleepy town of Lamberts Bay to contest the 2023 SA Champs. By Sean ...