Surfing Life — Issue 337 2017
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Tradewind fetches powered the explor- ation of the oceans by both Polynesian explorers and, later, the European discoverers. Pol ...
Finding the ‘magic numbers’ for any surf spot, for any stretch of coast, even an island chain, and developing an intimate three- ...
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Beside this left sits a rockwall, and just out the back sit military gunboats. When the photographer set his tripod on the rockw ...
On paper, Nigeria is synonymous with conflict, kidnappings and crime, but the coastal village of Tarkwa Bay is overcoming these ...
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Yet here we were, about to land in the thick of Nigeria’s largest city, and it was all because of the breakwall. Lagos is actual ...
The sky is full of sand the following morning; a dense blanket of grit and dust that stretches from the horizon to the tip of th ...
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boats,” he recalls. “I managed to sneak some wood and I took it to a neighbour’s compound where I shaped the board. I still don’ ...
Godpower Tamarakuro Pekipuma has a great name. He is also the central figure in the Nigerian surf scene. He’s responsible for ge ...
hapless swimmers out into the Gulf, never to be seen again. The same rips are wreaking havoc amongst a disorganised swell as our ...
traffic, under the longest bridge in Africa, lies the sprawling shantytown of Makoko. A few years ago the government tried to re ...
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INTERVIEWED BY CRAIG BRAITHWAITE B orn in 1950, Jeff Divine has watched the world change. He’s also a master of photography, hav ...
The biggest change was in the ’70s, when the attention of the surfers and spectators shifted from the centre of the surf univers ...
Who’s been the biggest innovator you have seen out at Pipeline? It’s hard to call out names in the sense that each generation ha ...
Who has surfed the best wave out there that you have seen? The context surrounding a great wave is important. In 1982 there was ...
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