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3 days ago | surfer.com | Dashel Pierson

Massive, nine-armed sea stars have been flooding the shores of Florida’s Space Coast – the home stretch of Kelly Slater. In his serial killer, crime comedy novel, Pineapple Grenade, of 2012, Tim Dorsey wrote:“A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.”From the proverbial “Florida Man” to all the whacky wildlife, the Sunshine State is a hotbed of strangeness.

3 days ago | surfer.com | Dashel Pierson

Neptune Beach Club, a new Endless Surf-powered wave pool, is proposed for the East Bay’s city of Alameda. Although California boasts hundreds of miles of coastline, with a few spots being some of the most trafficked surfing zones in the entire world, there’s a push for wave pools in the Golden State. Lots of ‘em, in fact. From San Diego, to Orange County, to Palm Springs, and now, all the way up in the San Francisco Bay Area.

4 days ago | surfer.com | Dashel Pierson

Body cam footage shows arrest of Liam Mahoney, 29, who has taken a plea deal regarding a beach badge incident in Belmar, New Jersey last summer. A courtroom drama unfolded in New Jersey, following an arrest involving a surfer from last summer. The incident began when the surfer was prompted by a police officer to show his beach badge – a proof of payment to the municipality, which funds beach maintenance, lifeguard wages, etc.

4 days ago | surfer.com | Dashel Pierson

Leon Glatzer launches lofty punt over human obstacle at Endless Surf wave pool in Germany. For all the skateboarders out there, this might ring a bell: After school in the cul-de-sac, a true test of trust and skill, a handful of neighborhood kids lie down on the ground, as someone ollies over them. It might seem like a very skating-specific phenomenon.

4 days ago | surfer.com | Dashel Pierson

Beyond the Club: São Paulo features upgraded Wavegarden Cove technology, and Gabriel Medina puts the new wave pool to the test. The Wright brothers first took flight in 1903; 11 years later, the first commercial flight took off. And perhaps, when it comes to the modern explosion of wave pool technology, we’re seeing a similar evolution. Take, for example, Wavegarden.