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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.

History holds some truly big waves... ones so big they changed the course of it.

A History of Mega-Tsunamis: The Story of the 16,000 Foot Wave

2 min read Jan 7, 2017

Tilikum, the whale who spent almost his entire life in captivity, is dead.

Tilikum the Orca Is Dead

4 min read Jan 6, 2017

Back in 2012, Dane hopped on two single-fins shaped by the inimitable Alex Knost, and it's good viewing. It's also five years old, but it's worth seeing again.

Watch Dane Reynolds on Single Fins Shaped by Alex Knost

1 min read Jan 6, 2017

Christmas is a time to be thankful, especially for Pipe surfers.

Christmas Morning at Pipeline Was the Best Gift Ever

1 min read Jan 1, 2017

This is tiring. Photo: Stevie L

Tales from Baja: Episode 1, in Which the Tire Exploded

4 min read Dec 30, 2016

Trudeau: "Hey Obama, wanna piss Trump off?" Obama: "I know just how to do it."

Obama and Trudeau Partnered Up to Ban Drilling in Arctic And Atlantic

4 min read Dec 26, 2016

Kai on a hydrofoil, pumping his way between waves, it's got a little bit of supsquatching thrown in for good measure.

Kai Lenny’s Outlandish Hydrofoil Antics

2 min read Dec 24, 2016

Chris Bertish, somewhere between 0 and 4,600 miles of paddling. Photo Allan Van Gysen

Chris Bertish Just Set a 300-Mile SUP World Record, and He’s Not Even Close to Done

3 min read Dec 23, 2016

A Russian fisherman named Roman Fedortsov knows first hand just how weird some of those creatures can be.

Russian Deep-Sea Fisherman’s Instagram is Proof That the Ocean is Way Weirder Than You Ever Thought Possible

3 min read Dec 23, 2016

Conner is mad, bro.

Conner Coffin Loses by a Fraction; Flips Huge Double Bird at Judges

3 min read Dec 19, 2016

Garrett McNamara at Nazaré, Portugal on December 23, 2015.

Nazaré Big Wave Challenge Gets Green Light for Possible Tuesday Start

2 min read Dec 18, 2016

After donning a lifejacket, pulling on a pair of fins, tethering himself to the tube, and strapping a GoPro to his chest Jones paddled out, got smashed around for a while, and then quickly got stuck in the rip.

Rescuers Called to Save Man in Inner Tube at Giant Morro Bay

2 min read Dec 18, 2016

Although scientists have known about the pointy-nosed blue chimera for ages, it is still interesting to see one alive in its home deep beneath the sea.

Ghost Shark Caught on Camera Alive for the First Time Ever

2 min read Dec 17, 2016

Surf World Series is coming out in 2017, and if you have any sense of personal responsibility for overcrowded lineups, you will give up surfing for it.

There’s (Finally) a New Surfing Video Game Coming Out for Xbox One, PC and PS4

2 min read Dec 16, 2016

NCI, Australia's national research computing facility, created a stunning video showing exactly how one of the most complex climate systems on earth works.

This Extraordinary Animation That Explains El Niño Took 30,000 Hours to Create

3 min read Dec 16, 2016

Laird Hamilton put the foiling and stand up paddling together for no other reason than he wanted to try it out, and he's undoubtedly going to have people vomiting up their hatred at him for it.

Laird Hamilton Hydro Foils on a Stand Up Paddleboard; Haters Will Implode With Rage

3 min read Dec 15, 2016

The Weedmaps house.

The Best House on the North Shore is the Weed Maps House

3 min read Dec 13, 2016

Bede Durbidge came very close to dying last year at Pipeline. This is the story of his journey.

The Return of Bede Durbidge, Part II: Sunset

1 min read Dec 12, 2016

A few hours after the sun had peeked over the horizon on a January morning in 2015, Ricardo dos Santos was gunned down on the street in front of his house.

An Interview with the Director of Remember Ricardo: The Story Behind The Murder Of Professional Surfer Ricardo Dos Santos

5 min read Dec 11, 2016