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Walter Munk, the father of surf forecasting, hits 100

American oceanographer and surf forecasting pioneer Walter Munk celebrated his 100th anniversary. Walter Heinrich Munk was born on October 19, 1917, in Vienna, in Austria-Hungary. At the age of 15, his parents sent him to New York because they wanted him to follow a career in finance. But he never liked banking, and by 1947, […]

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