Big blue April 27, 2006
The World’s seas and oceans are home to countless species, from tiny plankton to the great whale. Yet marine life, and the sea on which we depend, surf and swim, is under threat from pollution, over-fishing and other damaging activities.
As surfers and divers what can we do?
The presence of litter such as plastic bottles, crisp wrappers and sewage related debris on beaches and at sea is unattractive, has health and economic impacts on local communities, and is potentially harmful to marine wildlife through entanglement and ingestion.’ [Marine conservation society]
Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine …
Just be very… April 25, 2006
I heard this somewhere the other week. Can’t remember where. It was to do with starting up in business I think. I just like it.
Be very cool
Be very new
Be very newsworthy
Be very important
Be very useful
Just be very
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300 million and rising April 5, 2006
Surfing has left its mark on the history of the t-shirt and fashion. The earliest examples of surfing t-shirts were no more than early marketing tools. Back in 1961 a Californian surfboard maker Floyd Smith is often credited as the first. Smith asked local surfers to bring their white t-shirts to his shop and he would screen print the company logo across it. Later that year t-shirts were made to advertise the Makaha International Surfing Championships.
Within a few years the landscape had changed completely with thousands of surf company t-shirts appearing. They quickly became “symbols of the casual …