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Palm Desert, California Is Getting an Enormous New Wave Pool Facility Called DSRT Surf

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Jack Robinson surfing at The Box
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Jack Robinson Got Mic’d Up at The Box, and What Transpired Was Absolutely Mind-Boggling

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Quite Possibly the Most Artistic Advertisement You’ll See This Month

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Alex Knost Classic Tales
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Listen to Alex Knost’s Bizarre Story About Running Around Naked In Costa Rica

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Flagler Beach, 1994: Jeff Weakley was out surfing while attending a college beach party when he felt a sudden, sharp bite to his foot that couldn't have been anything but a shark, he thought. The fish shook his foot repeatedly, leaving him with several deep lacerations. Like most surfers, Weakley valued water time over the tiny chance of another run-in with a shark. Within a couple of weeks, he was back in the ocean with his foot wrapped in a waterproof bandage and covered with booties. Nearly twenty-five years later he noticed a blister forming on his foot. Turns out it was a tooth left from the attack that had finally festered to top of his skin. He removed it and planned to make a pendant from it but changed course when he learned that the Florida Program for Shark Research had identified a shark species through DNA after a bite off the New York coast and decided to have the tooth analyzed. “I was very excited to determine the identity of the shark because I’d always been curious,” Weakley told the Florida Museum of Natural History. “I was also a little bit hesitant to send the tooth in because for a minute I thought they would come back and tell me I’d been bitten by a mackerel or a houndfish – something really humiliating.” But he didn't need to worry. Scientists identified the shark through DNA as a black tip, which Weakley had suspected. When he was bitten at 21 years old, he remembered the water being filled with mullet and had a suspicion black tip were feeding on the baitfish. Today, Weakley, who edits Florida Sportsman magazine, still surfs but tries to avoid areas where baitfish are prevalent. And he has no ill-will towards any species of shark, though. “I’ve been lucky not to have been bitten by a dog, but I would regard that interaction I had with that shark as being no different or more destructive than a dog bite,” he said. “I certainly don’t have a hatred of sharks or any feeling of vindictiveness toward them. They’re part of our natural world.” You can read the full Florida Museum of Natural History report, here.
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Florida Man Pulls Shark Tooth From His Foot Nearly 25 Years After Attack

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Listen to Ben Gravy's Newest Tune, 'Just Wanna Surf'
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Listen to Ben Gravy’s Newest Tune, ‘Just Wanna Surf’

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Jamie O'Brien filmer
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Jamie O’Brien’s Filmer Had His Head Sliced Open Like Butter While Getting the Shot

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Jordy Smith Bruce's Beauties
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Jordy Smith Scores Ultra-Rare Wave Made Famous in ‘The Endless Summer’

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Coco Ho
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Coco Ho Withdraws from J-Bay After an Air-Induced MCL Tear Sustained in Waco

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John John Florence and Jon Pyzel. Photo: Screenshot/Youtube
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Watch John John and Crew Fine-Tuning Surfboards and Tormenting Pyzel on the Gold Coast

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Nathan Florence charging in Tahiti.
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Nathan Florence Just Dropped His First Self-Released Flick and It’s a Banger

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Sunny Garcia Moved to California Hospital, Set to Undergo Surgery
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Sunny Garcia Moved to California Hospital, Set to Undergo Surgery

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Filipe Toledo surfing Lakey Peak
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Witness Filipe Toledo’s Untouchable Air Game

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Kelly Slater at the Vissla Sydney Surf Pro
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John John Florence’s Season-Ending Injury Puts Kelly Slater on Short List for Olympics

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Billy Kemper on the Occ-Cast
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Billy Kemper’s Hour-Long Interview on the Occ-Cast Is Full of Golden Nuggets

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Devon Howard styling in California
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A Reminder That the Newly-Minted WSL Longboard Tour Commish Knows What He’s Doing

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This Is Cave Rock: How One Wave Shaped So Much of South Africa’s Surf Culture

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Kelly Slater Portrait
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A Surf Fan Compiled Some of Kelly Slater’s Best Quotes and It’s Wildly Compelling

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Mitch Parko surfing in Indonesia
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Mitch Parko On a Perfect, Lonely Indonesian Left Is the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

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