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Alexander Haro

Alexander Haro

Senior Editor

Title: Senior Editor

Email: Alex@theinertia.com

Location: Lake Cowichan, BC, Canada

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Expertise

Topics of Expertise: Travel, Environment, Surf

Years in This Expertise: 10

Education & Certifications

Education: Degree in Communications

Years of Writing: 20, for publications like SURFER magazine, Surfing magazine, Air Canada enRoute, Color magazine, SBC Surf, and Drift Surfing.

Experience

Alexander Haro has been writing about surfing, the environment, and the outdoors with The Inertia for 12 years. Prior to that, he worked at SURFER magazine after spending nearly 10 years doing various labor jobs in Northern British Columbia.

Based in Canada, Alexander still dreams of writing a novel. In the meantime, he can be found somewhere outside with his dogs, riding his motorcycle, surfing, camping, hiking, or reading when he should be doing something else that’s more important.

Career Highlights

Team trips to Hawaii.

Getting to know Portugal while writing about his experiences.

Having the opportunity to travel to interesting places and surf amazing waves with a handful of surfers who he used to only see in magazines.

"Hurricane Harvey will be strongest Texas coastal bend landfall in at least 47 years; Devastating rainfall flood threat." -The Weather Channel

Hurricane Harvey Expected to Devastate Texas; Some Areas Will be ‘Uninhabitable for Weeks or Months’

4 min read Aug 25, 2017

A box of smoked salmon arrived at the office, and I scoffed. It would not be good, I said. I was wrong.

Patagonia Mailed Me a Bag of Dead Fish

5 min read Aug 22, 2017

For some strange reason, the Trump Administration decided that a ban on plastic water bottles in places like this was a bad thing. Photo: Matador Network

Donald Trump Pointlessly Reverses Ban On Plastic Bottle Sales In National Parks

4 min read Aug 21, 2017

The new Volkswagen bus will be on the market in 2022.

Volkswagen Is Remaking the Classic VW Bus, and It’s Electric

3 min read Aug 20, 2017

Experts say the current plan to save the Great Barrier Reef are is no longer achievable

New Study Says Great Barrier Reef Protection Plan Will No Longer Work

4 min read Aug 19, 2017

Meet Joe Carr, the WSL’s chief strategy officer and head of international. Photo: MMA Junkie

The WSL Just Hired a UFC Executive as The Chief Strategy Officer

3 min read Aug 15, 2017

Would you slice yourself while sharks swam around you see see how much they actually like blood?

This Guy Cut His Wrist in Shark-Infested Water to Prove a Point

2 min read Aug 12, 2017

Rick Rasmussen at Uluwatu and post-session J-Bay.

Murder, Hard Drugs, and Perfect Waves: The Life and Death of Rick Rasmussen

8 min read Aug 11, 2017

Holmzaden ichthyosaurs died off at the beginning of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction pulse. Image: Utah Museum

Current Ocean Dead Zones Strikingly Similar to Cretaceous Period Mass-Extinction Event

4 min read Aug 11, 2017

Replogle seems to have his key to happiness firmly figured out.

Adam Replogle Is Stoke Personified

2 min read Aug 8, 2017

There are still places, though, where that mentality is still alive and well.

This Tiny Mediterranean Village Is a Throwback to ’60s California

2 min read Aug 8, 2017

Sam Kazinay's legs came out of the water looking like this. Image: AAP

Australian Teen’s Feet Eaten by Mystery Sea Creatures

4 min read Aug 7, 2017

My perspective is, you know, I smoke pot. So what?" Nathan Fletcher says. "The positives outweigh the negatives so much in my opinion... I'm just trying to live my life and surf another day."

Here’s a Very Good Day In the Life of Nathan Fletcher

2 min read Aug 5, 2017

Mick Fanning says he will retire from surfing within two years. Photo: WSL

Mick Fanning Is Going to Retire In the Next Two Years; Won’t Compete in the Olympics

2 min read Aug 4, 2017

SENFU Mexico, a seafood exporter, installed two pipelines into the break at Tres Emes, part of the Bahia de Todos Santos World Surfing Reserve.

Seawater Intake Pipelines Secretly Installed at World Surfing Reserve

3 min read Aug 4, 2017

The mega-tsunami was over 300-feet-high and devastated a remote Greenlandic community called Nuugaatsiaq.

One of the Largest Mega-Tsunamis Ever Recorded Happened in June, and it Demolished a Tiny Fishing Village

3 min read Aug 1, 2017

New Study Points Finger at Meat Industry for Massive Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico

5 min read Aug 1, 2017

The banner features an image of Gerald and his son Reef.

Aikau Memorial Angers Mother of Murdered 7-Year-Old

2 min read Jul 30, 2017

Peter Mel, ex-BWT commissioner, is back on the BWT Invitee list for Puerto Escondido. Photos: WSL

Pete Mel Is Back on the Invitee List for Puerto Escondido!

3 min read Jul 29, 2017