Researchers are beginning to conclude that there may be a link between bad weather and sharks behaviour. Sharks have a very acute sensory system, and now its been put forward that they can detect pressure changes in the atmosphere.
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Researchers are beginning to conclude that there may be a link between bad weather and sharks behaviour. Sharks have a very acute sensory system, and now its been put forward that they can detect pressure changes in the atmosphere.
For some time Newquay has been famous for its stag nights, bars and clubs, as well as being the focal point of UK surfing. The beaches are some of the best around the UK, but the legions of visitors have sometimes marred the image of surf HQ.
International Surfing Day, created by SURFING Magazine in the US and in conjunction with the SURFRIDER FOUNDATION provides an unofficial, official surfers' holiday that gives us a chance to promote and celebrate the sport while bringing awareness to the state of our oceans and beaches.
During the flat spells I often spend hours trawling around the Intenet finding interesting things to build into the web site. While I was looking at some West Coast blogs, I came across this film being made, Coastal Dreams. If you have a spare ten minutes, watch the film. It's a melancholic experience, but well worth it.
No one will deny that over the last five years surfing has witnessed an explosion of numbers. The BSA estimate two million surfers now reside in the UK, and many more people are surfing all year round instead of the traditional summer-only troop. So where does that leave surfing in terms of environmental impact?
Ok, Ok, I know. We started off with a flurry of activity, and then nada, nothing, not a word, for the next six months. It appears that we have been doing nothing, or we simply disappeared, but I can assure you that is not the case. We simply had to rethink a few things, adjust a few working practices, and do a bit more work than usual.
I was reading an article in the Sunday Times on 3rd December, which made me feel a little more optimistic about our oceans. After the recent news about cod stocks being fished to near extinction, and dramatic action needed now to save them, this was a breath of fresh air.
I recently visited Gran Canaria for the first time and found the place to be very different from anywhere I’ve been before. As a regular Lanzo boy, I thought I would be disappointed, but when we banked to land at the airport, I was greeted by a visual display more akin to Tahiti than this Atlantic archipelago.
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