Wave of surfers drawn to fictitious English beach
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Thousands of online visitors have been drawn to an English beach by pictures of turquoise seas, golden sands and palm trees, but risk disappointment as it is only a virtual surfers&#39; paradise.
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Surf cams, which help advertise lesser-known beaches, are gaining popularity, but many hard-core surfers blame them for leading crowds to once-secluded spots.
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Steven Soderbergh&#39;s so-breezy-it-could-blow-away caper &quot;Ocean&#39;s Twelve&quot; is not so much a movie as a riff on a movie, a game played by beautiful people in exotic locations who all seem to be having a fabulous time.
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Emergency services deal with a chemical scare on a beach after oil barrels cause noxious fumes.
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By Joyce Owen, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Feb.
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Picture a beautiful beach spanning miles of coastline, gently lapped by aqua-colored water &#151; and sprinkled with glass.
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By Nick Whitten  A Saturday afternoon surfing session off the coast of Northumberland led to a meeting of minds and a new business partnership for Orange Bus IT of Newcastle.
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Anyone gazing out to sea from the east Kent coast on Tuesday will have seen an unusual flurry of lifeboats and helicopters. Two miles off Deal a disaster was unfolding - two 100ft boats
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Surfing could come to Switzerland after a sports group said yesterday that it plans to build a wave machine on a river in Zurich, the staid financial hub of the landlocked Alpine country.
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LONDON  - When their vessel began taking on water, the five sailors issued a series of distress calls, fired flares into the air and burned tires to attract attention.
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By Gabriel Tynes, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Sep.
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By Robin Lord, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.  Jun. 24--CHATHAM -- Sand, wind and water rule the day here on North  Beach.
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Thousands of British music fans have flocked to Spain&#39;s Benicassim music festival, drawn as much by the nearby beach as by the alternative pop rock and electronica acts.
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By Kirk Moore, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  May 26--BRADLEY BEACH -- In a workshop two minutes from the beach,  boyhood friends Bob Hessels and Chris Sharp make what might be called castable  art.
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Corporate executives and professionals are trading their wingtips for wet suits as surfing becomes the hobby du jour of the white-collar crowd.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. - It's a version of Seaside - carefully created at a fraction of its actual size - just waiting to be slammed by a tsunami. Oregon State University's O.H.
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Britain's large Indian and Sri Lankan communities scrambled to rush relief aid to the victims of the monster tidal waves which devastated a broad stretch of south Asia coastline at the weekend.