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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.

Niccolo and Francisco Porcella call Maui home, and they wipe out harder than anyone else.

This Might Be the Worst (Or Best!) Wipeout Reel You’ve Ever Seen

1 min read Feb 14, 2017

Amphipod crustaceans found in the Mariana Trench–the deepest part of the world's oceans–have been found to have been affected by harmful industrial chemicals.

New Study Finds Banned Chemicals In Tiny Creatures In the Deepest Reaches of the Ocean

3 min read Feb 14, 2017

The RWC Keel is made from a wood-plastic composite. Image: Green Dot

Futures Just Came Out With a New Fin Made From Reclaimed Wood and Recycled Plastic

3 min read Feb 14, 2017

The Bruhwilers consist of Sepp and Raph, and they were basically the first Canadian surfers to gain any kind of international attention.

Canada’s Raph Bruhwiler is Living Life Right

2 min read Feb 13, 2017

Kalani Chapman Remembers the Day He Almost Died At Pipeline

Kalani Chapman Remembers the Day He Almost Died At Pipeline

2 min read Feb 12, 2017

As of now, volunteers are still trying to save the few remaining whales, keeping them as healthy as possible until Saturday afternoon, when the tide is high again.

After Enormous Mass Whale Stranding, Rescuers Scramble to Save Remaining Survivors

2 min read Feb 11, 2017

Here's why kneeboarding really IS cool: because it involves people that don't give a shit if you think it's cool.

This is Kneeboarding Turned Way, Way Up

3 min read Feb 10, 2017

The Big Wave Project–A Band of Brothers, five years in the making, follows a crew of some of the best big wave surfers on earth through some of the heaviest situations of their careers.

This Might Be the Defining Film About Big Wave Surfing

2 min read Feb 10, 2017

The hole in the grate measures three-feet across. Photo: Tepco

New Readings From Reactor No 2 at Fukushima Found to be at “Unimaginable Levels”

3 min read Feb 7, 2017

Mark Mathews Photo: Matt Dunbar/Red Bull Content Pool

Mark Mathews on the Wipeout that Might Have Ended His Career

3 min read Feb 7, 2017

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. The Lily Drone never got out of the bush. Photo: Lily/Facebook.

Business & Media

After $34 Million in Pre-Orders, San Francisco DA Brings Lawsuit Against Failed Lily Drone

4 min read Feb 6, 2017

For those who surf in heavy shorebreak, it's not about making it... it's about those few fleeting seconds before you don't.

3 Minutes of Shorebreak Carnage

1 min read Feb 6, 2017

The two-seater model.

Here’s a Survival Capsule Built to Ride Out a Tsunami

3 min read Feb 6, 2017

An Uncommonly Detailed Look at the Science Behind Kelly Slater's Sci-Fi

An Uncommonly Detailed Look at the Science Behind Kelly Slater’s Sci-Fi

1 min read Feb 5, 2017

Kristin Walovich holds the 50th described species of ghost shark on record. Photo: Courtesy of Kristin Walovich/Live Science

Researchers Just Discovered a Brand New Species of Rare Ghost Shark

2 min read Feb 5, 2017

Are you a rich lazy person? Do you hate moving your body? Do you wish that all stairs were escalators and all sidewalks were moving ones? Here's your skateboard!

Here’s an Electric Longboard For People Who Hate Pushing

1 min read Feb 4, 2017

Donald Trump’s Irish Wall is Back Again; Residents Claim “Monstrous Damage”

5 min read Feb 4, 2017

Wardens had to put down a cuvier's beaked whale in Norway because it was full of plastic garbage. Image: University of Bergen

Rarely-Seen Whale Euthanized Because its Stomach Was Crammed With Plastic

3 min read Feb 3, 2017

Topography of theIndian Ocean shows Mauritius, where researchers discovered a lost continent. Image: (Lewis Ashwal/Journal of Petrology/Oxford University Press

Researchers Discovered a Vast “Lost Continent” Beneath Mauritius

3 min read Feb 3, 2017