Forecasting Tutorial: Reading Wave Models
Gain a deeper understanding into how wave models work and how to read them.
Forecasting Tutorial: Air Masses
Welcome to our first installment on meteorology basics: Swell is generated by wind and wind is the result of air pressure.
Forecasting Tutorial: Wave Period Explained
Coastalwatch's chief swell forecaster, Ben Macartney, scratches beneath the sea surface looking at wave period.
Forecasting Tutorial: Great circles
Waves and swells in the open sea travel in a straight line in the direction of the wind that created them. A straight line drawn on a sphere linking any two points is known as a great circle.
Video: They Were Surfing Inside Newcastle Harbour Yesterday
Most spots blew out around the Hunter... but not this one
Video: Two Minutes of Raw, Ridiculous Deadman's Manly From Yesterday
Swell Update: This Is Just the First of Several Days of Heavy East Coast Surf
Sean Doherty: SMART Drumlines Were Phenomenally Successful in Targeting White Sharks, So Why Were They Pulled Out?
Russell Bierke Stays Employed With O'Neill
Teen Surfer Dies in Shark Attack on Mid-North Coast
Padang Padang Fires up as Lockdowns Lift in Bali
Occy and Sons Shred Glassy, Fun Snapper
West Aussie Kael Walsh Has Officially Arrived With This Monster of an Edit
Watch: Asher Pacey Has Sand-Bottom Points Absolutely Wired on a Twin Fin
Biggest Padang Padang of the Year So Far, 6 Minutes of Dreamy Tubes
When COVID Shut Down the US, This American Photog Was 'Stuck' in Pumping Aotearoa
Last Friday and Saturday at Cape Solander, It Was On
Letty Mortensen Has Been Ripping
Coco Ho Can Stomp Airs Now
Land of the Long Cold Tube? Beau Young and Ricardo Christie Surf Beautiful Aotearoa
Nick Carroll: Has COVID Exposed Competition’s True Place in Surfing?
"I Think What’s Coming for Surfing Is an Upwelling of New Voices and Perspectives – Those Who Have Often Been Excluded From Belonging to Core Surf Culture"
Seen the MP Doco 'Searching for Michael Peterson'? It's Online Here This Weekend
Sean Doherty: How Surfboards – Not Dunny Paper – Became the Most Essential Items of the Corona Lockdown
Hard Charging South Coaster Russell Bierke Tells His Story on Jamie Mitchell's Big Wave Podcast
One Sydney Beach, an Epic Swell, and the Locals Who Rode It
Who Was Really The First To Paddle Out at Teahupo'o?
Nick Carroll: Are We on the Edge of a New Era in Surf Environmentalism? Thanks to Some Dumb Virus?
The Melbourne Wave Pool Is Back Open
Watch Sheldon Simkus and Steph Gilmore Score Sick Little D-Bah Tubes Yesterday
Nick Carroll: Don’t Let the White Shark Bite Turn Normal
Sean Doherty: Tweed Coast Shark Victim an “Old School Surfer Who Loved Good Waves”
Photos from the Australian Black Lives Matter Paddle-Outs Across the Country on Saturday
Surfer Dies in Shark Attack Near Kingscliff
An Epic Sequence of Jack Robinson at The Right
Sean Doherty: Journals from the Vicco Surf Coast During COVID-19
A Wonderful Idea: A bunch of Surf Roadie Itineraries To Help Bushfire Affected Towns on the NSW South Coast
Rip Curl's Newest Wetsuit Was Designed by Mick Fanning, Tyler Wright and Gabriel Medina
What Are the Five Best Surf Comps of the Last Ten Years?
Will this Be the Best Surf Clip of 2020? The Melbourne Wave-Pool Shuts Again, and Pumping Padang Padang
Ten Things from Surfing & the Internet on the Week That Was July 10 2020
Teen Surfer Dies in Shark Attack on Mid-North Coast
The 15-year-old had been surfing at Wooli Beach, just north of Coffs Harbour
Forecaster Blog: Deep East Coast Low Wreaks Havoc Next Week
An impending East Coast Low looms large for the NSW coast next week.
Swell Update: This Is Just the First of Several Days of Heavy East Coast Surf
Although it's set to ease a bit overnight, there will still be no shortage of size and power.
