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Tuesday 8 March 2011 SNAPPER ROCKS, Aus: Hawaiian teen Carissa Moore, 18, won the first event of the ASP Women’s World Title season, the Roxy Pro Gold Coast, in an electric final over an even younger Tyler Wright, the 16-year-old from Australia, according to a press release.

Monday 7 March 2011 The intrepid bugs try to work out what the soothsayer old ballie dude meant when he spoke of wormholes, dimensions and the finding the wild side of your coastal world. It was a hint to something mystical.

Monday 7 March 2011 SNAPPER ROCKS, Queensland: Jordy Smith put in the performance of the day at the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast here today, posting 17.17 out of 20 during an unmatched repertoire of flowing barrels, massive turns and fat boosts, according to a press release.

Monday 7 March 2011 Finding a wave when it's flat in Slaapstad isn’t a mission if you know where to drive. Ian Thurtell waited for the mist to lift and then shot the local crew who capitalised on the fact that the surf reports were calling it flat everywhere.

Tuesday 8 March 2011 St John Lombard says Slumtown, East London has had the worst summer he's seen. These shots were taken at 3 spots on 3 days in the past 2 months. There's the ledge that shall not be named, there's a beach break that shall not be named, and there's Nahoon beach.

Tuesday 23 August 2011 The guys at Flare magazine had an idea, and this is how it came to fruition. By taking the 'best of the rest', from the millions of spare byts of photo data shot by today's hungery crop of surf photographers, they came up with FLARE. Nice.

Friday 4 March 2011 Boogers wearing yellow fins may attract sharks, warns veteran spearo Pierre de Villiers. His anecdote that bright colours, particularly yellow, flashing in the water, attract sharks is corroborated by shark scientist Alison Kock.

Thursday 3 March 2011 Alan Robb wraps up a productive February in the Dirty South. Finding soul in the water are the Gouws brothers Adrian and Cameron, Jordy Maree, Brendon Gibbens, Chris Heath, and others. Soundtrack from Jamie Shelley.