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Global Wave Wednesday will be the first time the global wave protection community has joined forces to highlight calls to protect natural surfing resources. A broad & diverse range of organisations are supporting Global Wave Wednesday, covering almost every coastline in the world. The supporting partners include the world’s biggest surfing NGOs, grass roots environmental organisations, leading oceanographers, and surfing federations.

Global Wave Wednesday partners will be helping secure 100,000 signatures for the Protect Our Waves petition, which calls on the UK parliament to debate the value of surfing waves and locations, and legislation in order to recognise the importance of waves as a cultural, social, economic and environmental asset to coastal communities. Peru, New Zealand and Australia already have legislation that protects surf spots and the sport of surfing, and SAS hopes to deliver the same level of recognition and protection for the UK.

Surf protection groups supporting SAS’s POW petition on Global Wave Wednesday include:

• Surfrider Foundation (USA & Hawaii)
• Surfrider Foundation Europe (France, Spain, Holland, Germany, Italy)
• Save The Waves Coalition (International)
• National Surfing Reserves (Australia)
• WiLDCOAST (Mexico)
• Salvem o Surf (Portugal)
• Surfers’ Environmental Alliance (USA)
• World Surfing Reserves (International)
• Surfbreak Protection Society (New Zealand)
• LiVBLUE (USA & Mexico)
• Ocean Revolution (USA & Mexico)
• SurfEns (Mexico)
• DGCostera (Peru)

There are an estimated 23 million surfers worldwide* and the combined supporter base of Global Wave Wednesday partners exceeds 500,000. Surfers are passionate about protecting waves from inappropriate coastal developments and pollution and to ensure they have sustainable access to their waves.

SAS Campaign Director Andy Cummins says: “It’s great to have surfers from all over globe standing up to protect UK waves as part of Global Wave Wednesday! Surfers are part of a global community, often travelling to experience new waves in new countries. We believe that UK surfers deserve to enjoy clean waves and we want to be able to promote the UK as a clean wave destination.”

Surfrider Foundation (USA) Environment Director Chad Nelsen says: “Global Wave Wednesday is a great first step in unifying the world’s surf protection organisations and the Surfrider Foundation is proud to be supporting the Protect Our Waves petition today. Surfing is a truly global sport and we travel the world in search of clean, healthy and exciting waves so we have a vested interest in supporting wave protection in the UK and around the world.”

Executive Director, DGCostera Carlo Grigolletto says: “Peru has a rich heritage and culture of surfing and we are lucky to already have laws that recognise and protect our unique and world-renowned surf spots. Peruvian surfers are stoked to be part of Global Wave Wednesday supporting calls for UK waves to be protected in a similar way, for everyone, for now and for ever.”

Freshwater POW under threat

Surfing was first introduced to the UK in 1890 in Bridlington (North Yorkshire) by two visiting Hawaiian princes*. Since then the UK has established itself as a genuine surfing location. There are world class waves in every corner of the UK and numerous UK beaches have a rich history of hosting international competitions. Surfers in the UK spend an average of 8.5% more than the other coastal tourists*. Surfing supports coastal economies outside the traditional tourist season, as the waves are generally best in spring, autumn and winter. However, some of the UK’s best waves are under threat:

North Cornish Coast: Several of the best Cornish surfing beaches, including St Ives Bay & Perranporth are under threat from a dredging proposal. The dredging proposal could result in negative impacts on important coastal processes, reanimating pollutants and enforced restricts on using the sea for all water users. SAS are engaged in the Environmental Impact Assessment process and have raised significant concerns within the scoping report. http://www.sas.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/MMO-Scoping-Opinion-Response-SAS.pdf

Broad Bench, South Coast: One of the best waves in the UK, known as Broad Bench, is found on the outer limited of the Lulworth MoD firing range. Currently the wave can be off limits to surfers for up to 228 days a year, including the best seasons for waves at Broad Bench. SAS are working together with the local surf community and the MoD to try and find solution that can allow the MoD full access to their firing range and increase the access surfers can have at Broad Bench.

Saltburn, North East Coast: Saltburn has a thriving surfing community but yet the water quality is failing European standards that are so inadequate they are in the process of being superseded by more stringent standards. The water quality at Saltburn and other beaches around the UK failing these standards is of extra concern to surfers as we immerse and ingest more than the average bather. Health risks associated with bathing in sewage polluted waters include: ear, nose & throat infections, gastro enteritis, Hep A, Ecoli etc.

The wave riding reed boats of Huanchaco, called Caballito de totora, have been used here for fishing since around 100AD. The coast receives so much swell that it was necessary for the early fisherman to create a surf craft that allowed them launch from the beach then ride the waves back to shore with the catch. Today, local fisherman still paddle out daily on there reed boats and there is a thriving local surf community.

The point at Huanchco does not have the quality of the nearby points at Pacasmayo and Chicama, but it picks up more swell and always has some fun waves; even when they are too small. On the other hand, Pacasmayo and Chicama are quite bleak but Huanchaco is one of the most interesting and nicest places to stop on the the North coast of Peru. So, it is a good place to recharge and chill out when the other points are not quite doing their thing. There is a lot of history and culture to explore around here too, such as the Moche Sol Y Luna temples or the ruins from the ancient Chimu city of Chan_Chan. Huanchaco also has great places to eat and is home to Peru’s national dish of Ceviche.

The point at Huanchaco

Whilst in Huanchaco we stayed at Casa Amelia. For about £12 a night we had a split level thatched roof room with our own private bathroom. The whole place is stylish, unique and charming. There is a garden, two sun terraces, a communal kitchen and a lounge. It is one of the best value places I have ever stayed. It is Peruvian owned and run by a Dutch couple, Paul and Renee. They work really hard to keep the place nice and do everything they can to help. Paul is a surfer too and can help arrange trips up the coast. He also loves to go for a surf with anyone staying there.

Got the bug

Photography: Alexa Poppe.
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Events include:

A screening of Kárate a muerte en Torremolinos, by Pedro Temboury

Spoken word and poetry by Luís Tejerina and Unai Azkune

The Longboards in concert, instrumental surf & drag from Bilbao

Dj Marie Delaure, a freaky mix of garage, surf & rock’n roll

Afterparty at Bebop, with dj Pedro Temboury amongst others

Tickets -9€- on sale at Guardetxe from 19:30 onwards.

We are kind of busy at Drift with some new projects coming together soon, so we could do with a hand on the day to day running of the site. There’s a lot of content out there to publish, and we don’t have time to get all of it out there right now.

What we’re looking for is someone who can recognise and appreciate a decent story, as distinct from the usual surf media press releases and industry news. Take a look around the site, we don’t cover the pro scene in any way, or regurgitate ‘team rider’ news, paying lip service to the brands.

What we do is publish diverse and aspirational content about the scene in and out of the water. And with that in mind we’re looking for someone who can help us with these tasks:

Use WordPress to publish daily blog news.

Help with organising newsletter content for our weekly broadcast.

Curate, write and collaborate with contributors to help us publish new features.

Source and edit photography for the features we publish.

Ideally you’ll be able to spell, write and know the difference between a full stop and a semi colon, although we aren’t expecting you to know your iambic pentameters from your trochaic rhythms.

If you can use Photoshop and have some notion of HTML that would be a huge bonus, but we can get you set up with some basic knowledge.

This post could be done remotely, you don’t need to be in our office. You need to be passionate about the ocean and surf culture and be studying something relevant at college perhaps.

Ideally we would like you to be able to pitch in most of the time, but if there’s surf, hey you’ll be on your own as we won’t be in the office much either.

Get in touch if you think you might like to get involved.

Sitka surf team rider, Reid Jackson, joined Chris Burkard and Mikey Detemple for a stunning adventure that produced this short film and many photos.