The Bluest Water I'd Ever Seen

New track and video from Teen Daze

Teen Daze - The Bluest Water I'd Ever Seen from teen daze on Vimeo.

Jaws-off

Mark Visser surfs Jaws at night.

Mark Visser Rides JAWS at Night! from Fortrus Sports on Vimeo.

VS.

Chuck Patterson shreds Jaws on dungus rockets.



In the parlance of the blogosphere, who you got?

Real tidal waves

"Tidal Wave" is not a synonym for "Tsunami". In other words, that budget 7th grade Science Fair project Crash did at Concord where he divided a home aquarium tank in two with a piece of removable plywood, hastily placed mini log cabins to resemble a town on one half, filled the other half with water, pulled the divider, watched the water destroy the town and called it a Tidal Wave was a total Fugazi. A fake. A misrepresentation.

But tidal waves themselves are real, which was Crash's greater point. They're called Tidal Bores and they occur in about 100 rivers worldwide dependent on the uniformity of the depth of the river at its estuary, the local tidal range, and the time of year.

They're pretty rad in action. Check out one of America's own Bore's and its Stand Up Shredding Crew. Learn more about the video here. Tunes are so Alaskan. Thanks to CT for the look.



Nerd out reading some Nat Geo on tidal bores here.

Boat/People/Forklifts Getting Munsoned in Rough Seas

Yeah, many of you have probably already seen this video as it has been flying around the blogosphere today. For those of you who have not, this is pretty much a must sea (that's not a typo). A Pacific Sun cruise ship was sailing off of NZ when it encountered very rough seas. The video below shows a few CCTV vantage points of the aforementioned things in the title of this post going to hull in a handbasket (read munsoned). The forklift/blue toolshed box shot is pretty ridiculous. I'm glad they spared us the shots of people puking. Nice touch with the Rod Stewart song.

TCD from the front lines

At 5 pm this afternoon Earl was 230 miles SSW of Nantucket and moving NE at 20+ mph. He's weakening throughout the nor'ward course. Below is a video and some pics from Long Island's South Shore circa 430 pm. The outer bar is breaking double overhead+. Looks a lot like the last scene in PB where Bodhi and Utah duke it out, Utah is getting his pretty boy arse kicked but somehow manages to cuff Bodhi, but then lets him paddle out into the 100 Year Storm at Bells.

Cliffs on both sides, man. I'm not gonna paddle to New Zealand.

Visual Earl Update (Destructive Waves!!)

IT'S ON LIKE DONKEY KONG

Three storms out there.

Because students always have a crush on a teacher, and because I am somehow usually a student, I have no problem admitting that I recently had a crush on a professor named Fiona. No longer. Longer story.

Tunnel Vision

I'm in the market for pleasing images these days. Tough weekend. Yeah I know it's Wednesday. Shack therapy helps turn things around.



Thanks to our friends at Surfline

Shredding Waves On Two Sticks

Thanks to Josh Jones, a friend of the TCD who doesn't even know this blog exists, for sending this along. Big mountain skiers Mike Douglas and Cody Townsend are getting freaky on waves wearing skis. Cojones.