A 30-year-old surfer survived a shark attack in Bantham Beach, near Devon, in England. Rich Thomson was grabbed by the leg and bitten by a three-foot smooth-hound shark. As a result, he suffered cuts to his hands and a bruised leg. According to researchers, it is the first time in the UK that the ocean’s […]
The Wave Bristol has decided to change the artificial wave technology used in the surf park scheduled to open in 2016, in England. Nick Hounsfield, the founder of The Wave Bristol, has signed a contract with US company Wave Loch to develop a project that will pump six-to-eight waves per minute. “For the last five […]
Three surfers have lost their lives in a rip current off Mawgan Porth Beach, near Newquay, Cornwall, in England. Two men and a woman, with ages between 42 and 52, were surfing in challenging conditions, with powerful three-to-six foot waves hitting the Cornish shores. “The waves were bigger, they were quite big. And it wasn’t […]