Travel Warnings

Video guide to Thurso

8 / 01 / 2010

Film by Shane Rielly/videosurfguide.com.Music by Blindside/blindsideonline.com
Go here – http://videosurfguide.com/the-backlash/ – for interesting comments on whether to name or not to name. Let us know what you think.

Thurso (Episode 2) from Shane Rielly on Vimeo.

Meet the Surf Docs

10 / 08 / 2009

United Breaks Guitars

23 / 07 / 2009

Flying off on surf trip soon? Taking a couple of boards? Maybe your guitar? Good luck.
Remember: that big metal bird is a sadistic bastard. Smiling airline staff are paid to enforce cash-driven policies that don’t include a single element of natural social justice. The golf clubs go free; the surfboard costs 300. “Sorry, sir. We [...]

Bathtub IV

23 / 04 / 2009

This amazing tilt-shift film was made by Keith Loutit, a photographer based in Sydney, Australia. The location may be recognizable to some surfers as ‘Ours’ on Cape Solander, at the entrance to Botany Bay, as seen on the cover TSP Issue 71. See more of Keith’s work at: http://keithloutit.com
Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on [...]

Sri Lanka: Caught in the Crossfire – Parts 1 to 6

22 / 04 / 2009

It’s a place we surfers associate with mellow year-round waves, big gold buddhas, the great tsunami and Arugam Bay. But for many years a bitter war has raged across large parts of the Sri Lanka. This series of ground-level documentaries by VBS.TV offers good insight into what’s been going on there.
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part [...]

Oceansource Travel Bug

13 / 06 / 2008

The website Oceansource.net, which lists nearly all of the world’s airlines and provides detailed information on their policies for travelling with surfboards, has been hit by a computer virus. It now needs your help to get it back on track.
The virus hasn’t affected the information detailing each airline’s policy on kit, but it has [...]

Tsunami Warning Issued as Strong Quake Hits Indonesia

26 / 02 / 2008

A powerful earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale hit Indonesia’s Bengkulu province off the western coast of Sumatra on Monday, sparking a tsunami warning of the geophysics and meteorology agency.
“We have issued tsunami warning,” an agency official Agung Mulya Utom said, adding that the quake was felt in Jakarta, some nearby provinces and also [...]

British Airways Board Petition

25 / 10 / 2007

Surf travel? BA can’t handle it.

Surfers all over the world are trying desperately to convince British Airways to turn back from a plan to stop carrying surfboards on all thier flights after November 6th 2007.The airline says it is not able to carry boards “due to their large size and handling complexities”. (See full details [...]

British Airways Bans Surfboard

22 / 10 / 2007

Big company, big planes, no room for surfboards.
Surfers travelling on British Airways won’t be able to take their surfboards with them at all, according to a new rule to be implemented by the airline soon. While golf clubs, skis and other sports equipment can go in the hold as normal, surfers’ have found themselves exiled [...]

Indo Issues Three Seperate Tsunami Warnings in 24 hrs

14 / 09 / 2007

Earthquake & Tsunami Warning: Indonesians warned of another big wave

Jakarta, Indonesia issued its third tsunami warning in the past 24 hours, as a strong aftershock of 7.9 rattled the island of Sumatra, the meteorology office said. The earthquake hit at 6.49am (23.49 GMT on Wednesday), about 140km south-west of the town of Jambi, in the [...]