Firing
Photos by the lovely Maggie Marsek taken on Monday the 22nd which seems like a week ago.
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- The Ranch claims a life.
-comment- - Teaser for Brian Conoly's, My Eyes Won't Dry 3. I hope he mixes it up with some B roll and 2nd angles a bit on this one, but even if he doesn't, it's gonna be amazing.
-comment- - I completely, totally forgot about hurricane season.
-comment- - Kiribati warned that by the end of the century, their country would be underwater, due to global warming. They should start on this Maritime colony project now. Anyone surf there?
-comment- - This has to be the most indepth look at the Brazilian tidal bore surfing ever created. Check out video of Jon Rose and Masatoshi Ohno at Nissan and photos at Surfline.
-comment- - The Jet Stream as viewed from the South pole gives a pretty clear indication of why the next few weeks is going to be pretty small. What we need, is a trough from under NZ to halfway across the Atlantic, then a northward spike pointing directly at us.
-comment- - Get Dorked. Some old rad Ed Roth stickers.
-comment- - 46% of White shark attacks were on divers, but in attacks in which the victim was collecting marine creatures, only 10% of attacks were against urchin divers. Abalone divers didn't fair so well though in this statistic, as 56% of those attacks were against them.
-comment- - The Cali Department of Fish and Game has an Urchin Fishery page which contains some really interesting info: The number one diver in 2006 brought in 233 thousand pounds, worth 118 thousand dollars. Another tidbit: The total California catch has declined dramatically from 25 million pounds in 1991 to 7.5 million pounds in 2003.
-comment- - Blue Water Gold Rush, is the diary of a California urchin diver. Mmmmmm.... fresh uni!
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October 24th, 2007 at 6:29 am
it´s scary to find beauty in this tragedy. Maggie´s pics as always…impressive.
I am suffering watching this happening in a place I felt like home.
Our minds are with SoCal now more than ever even now from far far Europe.
Solana
October 24th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Thanks bro. As far as tragedies go though, this one isn’t too bad. I think only 2 people have died as a direct result of the fires. Not saying it wouldn’t suck to loose your house and belongings, but very few deaths is good.
October 24th, 2007 at 9:39 am
eerily beautiful. god, i love maggie’s pictures tho..
October 27th, 2007 at 10:55 am
maggie takes great shots…. I cant believe how good the surf was during this whole mess. I almost felt guilty for some reason for paddling out… but I overcame the guilt 2 minutes after I got into the water.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Surfing during the flames? You are a surfer and if the waves are good you must surf. Not surfing did not douse the fires. Not surfing did not save any homes from destruction. The October offshores were better when I was a kid before the pyros showed up, that’s for sure. Just because some nutcase lights a brush fire in 50 mph winds doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go out and get barreled. Never feel guilty. Storms that destroy one area will send epic waves to another thousands of miles away. It’s just the way it is. Surfers have to surf. Just don’t surf in the smoke, it’s really dangerous for your health.
Nice photos by Mags, can we see larger sizes?