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Editor’s note: On-water communication can be challenging. When conditions are mild, communicating with your buddies is generally pretty easy, but add distance and it’s harder. Add wind, waves, boomers, and/or crashing surf and it can be almost impossible. This article was written in 1991 by Eric Soares. Having a useful “sign language” to communicate effectively…

Nature, red in tooth and claw – Alfred, Lord Tennyson Editor’s Note: Recently, TR Don Kiesling sent me a copy of The Devil’s Teeth, a book about the Farallon Islands, a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones off the coast of San Francisco, California. Published in 2005, this book was…

Editor’s Note: Surf Sirens rocked the rocks and the waves this September with 30 students and 11 instructors and assistants. Thank you so much to everyone who took photos this year! Kudos to Kristy Dahlquist, Wendy Wenrick, Alisha Bube, Helen Davis, and Deb Volturno for their contributions to this article.   Surf Sirens 2024 was all about…