Surfline

Surfline is a California-based company located in Huntington Beach, focusing on surf forecasts and reports. They provide live webcasts, photography, videography, and editorial content about the surfing world. As of now, Surfline.com ranks 1,180 in the US and 5,784 globally in web traffic, making it the top source for HD coastal streaming cameras. Since 2003, they have acquired buoyweather.com and fishtrack.com (in 2012), attracting around 175,000 visitors daily across their network of sites. Surfline features live video feeds, detailed surf reports, and forecasts, offering camera streams from 150 surf spots, making it one of the largest surf cam platforms available. The company employs around 50 people.

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Iconic Puerto Rican Waves in Danger

1 month ago | surfline.com | Marcus Sanders

After nearly a week of protests in Rincón, Puerto Rico over a coastal paved bike path that could impact surf spots and beach access, the mayor has agreed to meet with community groups. Locals are pushing for a sustainable redesign that protects the surf and environment — and addresses the current state of the coastline. “Over 20 years ago, land was purchased along the coast, stretching from the Rincón Lighthouse approximately to the town area.
Arctic Blast Ushers In Primetime Puerto Rico

Jan 15, 2025 | surfline.com | Matt Pruett

Photography by Cynthia Ale, gOnzo, Rachel Tanner, Babby Quiñones, Printzel Larregoity, Jorgito Rivera, and Michael Regan. How’d you spend New Year’s Eve? Well, our Puerto Rican pals rang in 2025 with an island-wide blackout — yet another epic fail from an underground line to a chronically ill power grid that’s been bumming everyone out ever since Hurricane Maria razed the thing back in 2017. But a holiday’s just a day, and in a place where every day is la junta, there was no time to sulk.
“Every Session Is Like a Bottle Of Wine”

Dec 31, 2024 | surfline.com | Dylan Stott

Celebrating Ireland at Irish Surf Film Festival
Darragh: How Atlantic Storm Set Off...Tuscany!

Dec 10, 2024 | surfline.com | Leo Franceschini

We’re all connected by something in nature.
Once More, Florida, With Feeling

Nov 12, 2024 | surfline.com | Matt Pruett

Photography by Jason Wagoner, Andrew Nichols, Ivy Scott, Alex Dantin, Valerie Rose, and Mark Townsend. In 1964, at 13 years of age, Joe Roland rode his first wave. Last Thursday morning, November 7th, he rode his last. His body was found washed up on the shore in Ponte Vedra Beach, his shortboard still attached to his ankle, the cause of death unknown. Roland was 73, meaning he spent six straight decades getting after it.
RIP: Phyllis O’Donnell, First Ever World Champ

Nov 5, 2024 | surfline.com | Nick Carroll

Phyllis O’Donnell, 1964 world surfing champion and one of a kind character, has died. She was 87 years of age. Phyllis began surfing at Freshwater on Sydney’s northern beaches in 1960, at the relatively late age of 23, and swiftly went on to dominate women’s competition surfing for the next decade.
North Shore Wakes Up

Nov 5, 2024 | surfline.com | Marcus Sanders

Photography by Shane Grace, Keoki Saguibo, Christa Funk, Sean Davey, Heff/WSL“It kinda feels like the first day of school.”That’s longtime North Shore photographer Shane Grace, who spent this past weekend wandering around and documenting the North Shore’s first solid northwest swell of the season, which was, by all accounts especially pretty and especially welcome after a slow early season.
Going Places: El Salvador, With Pacha Light

Oct 10, 2024 | surfline.com | Marcus Sanders

If you could write a script about how surf travel can have a positive impact on a local community, look no further than El Salvador. Over the past five years, the government has supported myriad events, from ISA Champs to CT contests and created the “Surf City” initiative, which invests in infrastructure near surf spots (of which there’s no shortage).
"The Best Board I Made in my Life"

Oct 6, 2024 | surfline.com | Marcus Sanders

On October 12-13, Bob McTavish will be honored as this year’s Icon of Foam at the Boardroom in Del Mar, California. More info and tix here. ***Bob McTavish started shaping surfboards in 1961, up on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Since then he’s been involved in nearly every facet of surfboard design, from early longboards to the shortboard revolution of the late 1960s and the Hawaiian-inspired pintails of the ’70s, windsurfing and molded boards in the ’80s, and back to longboards in the ’90s.
A Great Day in the Stoke Returns

Sep 25, 2024 | surfline.com | Marcus Sanders

Photography by Jeremiah Klein and Earl Gibson III. “When you’re around a lot of people that look like you, you gain more confidence.”That’s Rusty White, who used to be the only person of color in many pro-am surf contests up and down the California coast back in the ‘90s. “I’d go down to almost any beach I’d be the only black person there,” he said.