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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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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Advertisers are seeking ways to show that they care about the tsunami, but they are also striving to avoid the appearance of capitalizing on the disaster.
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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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Surfing has become a status sport, and vacation packages, instruction, equipment and real estate are big business.
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Giant waves crashed onto the Hawaiian coast Wednesday, leaving sand and debris on roadways and prompting officials to close beaches amid fears that some waves could reach as high as 50 feet.
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Two-year-old Hannes Bergstroem doesn't understand much about the tsunami that swept him away from a beach in Thailand, though he talks about 'the big stupid wave,' his father said Friday.
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MASSIVE surf forced the postponement of the Pipeline Masters in Hawaii yesterday, but that did not stop 24 surfers from attacking waves of more than eight metres at nearby Waimea Bay.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California  - The day of reckoning for 53 trainee lifeguards began under "gloom June" gray skies with a 250-yard (250-meter) dash across the sand and a 200-yard (200-meter)ocean swim through six-feet-high crashing waves out to a distant buoy.
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Water depths in parts of the Straits of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels off the coast of Sumatra, reached about 4,000 feet before last month's tsunami. Now, reports are coming in of just 100 feet &#151; too dangerous for shipping, if proved true.
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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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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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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - A 24-year-old California surfer topped a daredevil contest yesterday that had competitors riding waves more than four stories tall.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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Feel like a fish out of water? You may not be too far off.
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Surfers around the world may complain about crowded conditions, but for dozens of South Africa wave riders it was the more the merrier as they lined up to break a world record by riding a single wave.
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Surfers and environmentalists threw a roadblock in front of a proposed toll road through one of the world's best surf breaks Â but backers say they will fight on.