Chopes lights up for day one of the the Air Tahiti Nui VonZipper Trials
Mother Nature has flicked the switch at Tahiti’s famed surf break, Teahupo’o, turning on a magical day of surfing for contestants in the Air Tahiti Nui VonZipper Trials.

Surfer dies after shark attack in Western Australia
A 31-year-old surfer was attacked and killed by a shark in Western Australia this morning, while surfing on his own. The attack occurred at an isolated beach called South Point, which is south of Perth.

Supertubes Foundation open SMS line to petition against Thyspunt nuclear power plant

Cape Town erects new shark signage at its beaches
The City of Cape Town, in conjunction with the Shark Spotters Programme, has designed three new signs to improve shark safety on Cape Town’s beaches. These signs seek to increase awareness about the presence of sharks (Great White sharks in particular), and to guide beach users on the workings of Shark Spotting Programme.

Sardine Run Update - Monday 26 July
Sardine activity stretching along the coast from Ballito through to Brighton beach.

Sardine Run Update - Friday 18.6.2010 / Sardines in Durban - Nets removed.
Mushy seas are proving problematical for the netters off Durban where are lots of fish in the area. Netting has however taken place off Glenashley, Beachwood and Virginia 5 times already today. Still looking good with the sardine stretching now from Amanzimtoti through to Zinkwazi and visible from the shore. Hopefully we will have a good weekend with fish in the area and better sea conditions.

Surfers and residents join ranks to protest against nukes in Jeffreys Bay on Saturday
Residents Jeffreys Bay were joined by international surf community and visitors to the town in a massive display of displeasure with ESKOM’s decision to make Thyspunt the preferred site to build a nuclear power plant.

Sardine Run Update: 15/07/10
Activity started off fairly slowly this morning. Concentrations of fish in the area stretching from Amanzimtoti through to Umtwalume with the largest shoals in the Scottburgh, Park Rynie and Ifafa areas.

Sardine Run Update - Monday 13.7.2010
Slight increase in activity over the week end with 30 baskets being netted at Umgababa on Saturday afternoon. Sunday was very quiet with the seine netters chasing their tails between Warner Beach and Scottburgh. No netting took place. Fish were seen rounding the point at Port Edward late yesterday afternoon.

Sardine Run update: Shark nets being removed on the lower KZN south coast
It is possible that the sardines will make there long awaited appearance on the lower south coast of KZN in the next couple of days.

Humpback mother and calf escape KZN south coast trauma
Two humpback whales, a mother and a newborn calf, were released alive from the shark nets at Rocky Bay, Park Rynie, this morning.

JBay pulls together to say NO to the Thyspunt Nuclear power station
The Jeffreys Bay surf community came out in full support of the Supertubes Surfing Foundation’s call to prevent the building of a nuclear power station at nearby Thuyspunt. 200 – 250 people donned either black or yellow T-shirts and formed a human NO nuke sign on the Supertubes beach, the venue of the annual Billabong Pro surf event.

Sardine Run Update - Friday 18.6.2010
The KZN Sharks Board undertook a sardine survey flight this morning (Friday 18 June) landing shortly after 12:30. Most of the activity is still off the Wild Coast off the Waterfall Bluff area, Mngazana to the south off Port St John’s and off Coffee Bay.

GO SURFING AND DO YOUR BIT ON 20 JUNE

Surfers Call environmental action group hold anti-mining protest paddle
The Surfers Call held a protest paddle on the weekend at the vlei that flows into Elands to resist an application to prospect for Tungsten.

Milestones as Coast 2 Coast 4 CANSA jet ski crew battle though Southern and Western Cape
The team has ridden a massive 440km over 16 hours in the last two days, and as such the rest day which they are taking today (6 May) could not have come at a better time.