Ocean Beach Erosion Town Hall Meeting Tonight at the Great Highway’s Park Chalet
TweetOur neighbors in the Great Sand Waste* of the Outside Lands are having a little trouble with the partial collapse of the Great Highway near Sloat, so there’ll be a meeting tonight at 7:00 PM: “A...
View ArticleRogue Waves at 2010 Mavericks Surf Contest – Video Showing What Happened
Tweet[UPDATE: Even more better vids have turned up today, links right here. Still hunting for 1080p High Def...] Here’s some video from creilly94010* showing a giant rogue wave that injured spectators...
View ArticleThe Reason Why Mavericks Surf Ventures is Dead Wrong about Injury-Causing...
TweetFirst of all, let’s acknowledge the fine performances of all the competitors at our recent Mavericks Surf Contest 2009-2010 and especially that of Chris Bertish. As it turned out, his victory was...
View ArticlePhotos – Mavericks Surf Ventures Claims Biggest Waves Ever Surfed In A Contest
TweetOur recent 2009-2010 Mavericks Surf Contest had the “Biggest Waves Ever Surfed In A Contest,” according to organizer Mavericks Surf Ventures. That’s what they’re claiming today, February 17th,...
View ArticlePublic Not Invited to Mavericks Surf Contest Public Safety Meeting in Moss Beach
TweetThe San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office is going to hold a “critical incident debrief” this morning down in Moss Beach – organizers of the 2010 Mavericks Surf Contest have been invited to discuss...
View Article8th Annual Mavericks Surf Contest Wave Watch Window Starts November 1, 2010 –...
TweetBelieve it or not, Mavericks, or at least the waiting period for Mavericks, will start up again in just three short months. (And guess what, I haven’t seen any self-rightous falderal burbling up...
View ArticlePeople, Turn Off Your iPods and Whatnot When You’re Below 10,000 Feet the Way...
TweetNow it’s sort remarkable how no passenger has died the past decade in an Airbus or Boeing jetliner that either took off or landed in the United States. Of course there was the 9/11 and shortly...
View ArticleThe Happy, Jumping Dolphins of the Bay Area – Best San Francisco Porpoise...
Tweet[Oops, dolphin not porpoise, corrected, thx.] Yowzer. San Francisco photographer David Cruz does it again. Dancing in the waters of Fort Funston: Click to expand Yowzer
View ArticleThe Best San Francisco Jumping Dolphin Photo of 2013 (So Far) – Completely...
TweetAt Ocean Beach. Wow: Via Nature’s Lantern – click to expand
View ArticleHow Your US Coast Guard Spent Thanksgiving at Ocean Beach: Fighting the Waves...
TweetOh ho, look what Serge Dedina witnessed over the long four-day weekend. Serge Dedina @sergededina1 “God bless the @uscoastguard -here they are training at Ocean Beach, #SanFrancisco on...
View ArticleUS Military Performing Exercises Just Off of Ocean Beach on MLK Day – US...
TweetThe smallest branch of our U.S military, the Coast Guard, was out practicing rescues at Ocean Beach on a national holiday, as they are want to do. One of the $1.2 million Textron Marine 47 foot...
View ArticleOur U.S. Military Conducts Exercises in Plain View at Ocean Beach – Coast...
TweetThusly: Hey, you know who doesn’t train for this type of water rescue? The SFPD, which is sort of funny because they have the exact same kind of aluminum-hulled rescue boat, Marine One or whatever...
View ArticleSurf’s Up: “Storm of the Decade” Coming Soon – 11 to 18 Foot Waves at Ocean...
TweetHere’s Rivera during last week’s Storm of the Month, which, Ocean Beach surfing-wise, was much better than average – hundreds of surfers were on the wet side of the Great Highway on this day:...
View ArticleJust a Man and His Board Confronting the Angry Waves – The Endless Summer of...
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View ArticleScience Corner: Standing Waves, COSCO Indonesia, Golden Gate
TweetI guess that’s what they’re called?
View ArticleWhy Doesn’t Frisco’s Deadly Ocean Beach have Lifeguard Towers? – IDK – Here’s...
TweetWell I guess the basic answer is that having SoCal-style, LIFEGUARD ON DUTY structures in Frisco is that it would cost a lot of money. So there’s that. And I’ve also heard that having lifeguard...
View ArticleFrisco’s Most Windswept Bus Stop – Less a Shelter Than a Sine Wave-Based,...
TweetIDK, what’s the roof supposed to be, p-waves from the Big One what’s going to come and kill some of us some day? IDK but I think so. Ooh, how, how … practical? Most of the time, the wind comes...
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