Big Waves Mean No Small Preparation for Surfers
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More than bronzed slackers in board shorts, big wave surfers study oceanography and weather patterns to help them ride waves that can be more than 50 feet high.
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There have been many extraordinary eyewitness accounts of the disaster that unfolded as giant waves swept ashore after the earthquake.
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Surfing has become a status sport, and vacation packages, instruction, equipment and real estate are big business.
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It&#39;s not London (020), and it doesn&#39;t much resemble Birmingham (0121). People visit it from Glasgow (0141) and go surfing it in Ipswich (01473).
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Both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas are vulnerable to tsunamis like the one that devastated Indian Ocean shorelines in December and experts said on Tuesday they are scrambling to try to get warning system in place before politicians lose interest.
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It's a version of Seaside &#151; carefully created at a fraction of its actual size &#151; just waiting to be slammed by a tsunami.
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Feel like a fish out of water? You may not be too far off.
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Scientists predict killer tsunamis could strike the Caribbean, which lacks a warning system even though its seabed is gouged by some of the world's deepest trenches, where the giant waves can be generated by tectonic activity, and its low-lying islands are heavily populated along their coastlines.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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The great wave that wreaked disaster round the Indian Ocean has brought its first cargo of death to the northern shores of Europe.
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TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, Dec. 28 -- For J.D. Vaz and M.Vasantna, the earthquake-driven waves that roared ashore without warning Sunday were a great leveler.
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Waves over 20m high are getting bigger, more frequent and are eroding Britain's Atlantic coast, experts say.
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Giant tsunamis are more likely to hit the U.S. Pacific coast than to hit Asia, scientists say. Coastal residents may have only 15 minutes' warning.
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MARGARET RIVER, Australia  - The waves have been   nicknamed Cyclops, Jaws and Dungeons and are the new   life-and-death playground for a unique breed of surfers who   ride gargantuan ocean waves as big as a seven storey building.
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PENANG, Malaysia -- On any normal Sunday, the public beaches at Batu Ferringhi on this island state are filled with a mix of tourists and residents seeking refuge from the equatorial sun. But yesterday's Boxing Day holiday swelled the usual numbers with jet skiers, swimmers, boaters, and paragliders. No one had any idea, or warning, that a giant tidal wave, ...
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Dude, nothing will harsh your mellow faster than catching a few tasty waves and running into someone else's trash.  The First Coast Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is teaming with the city's Clean it Up, Green it Up department Saturday to clean up the beaches.
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The fact that the tsunami happened at the peak of tourist season could deter others from coming in the future. Other countries weren&#39;t hit as hard.