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Thursday 20 October 2010 PUNTA HERMOSA, Peru: Two sets of scaffolding, one on either side of the rocky bay of Punta Hermosa, enabled organisers to run simultaneous heats as 4-7 foot waves lit up Day 1 of the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games this morning.

Thursday 21 October 2010 The award winning and eye opening film The End Of The Line opens in cinemas tomorrow, 22 October. Watch it, and change the way you eat fish. Chris Mason discusses why you should see it.

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Tuesday 19 October 2010 The ghouls, ghosts and goblins will haunt Durbanville on the 30th of October 2010 when the Halloween Jam brings supernatural beings on their BMX’s together again for another insane contest of flips, tweaks, spins and big air.

Monday 18 October 2010 The debate rages on. The first in a few instalments of Pits or pieces of air, Simone Robb brings us images from all around Cape Town to as far a field as Plettenburg Bay. This one is mainly of the beast that drives us, the barrel, the greenroom, the tube, the PIT.

Monday 18 October 2010 The KEEP KOMMETJIE REAL fundraising event will be held at Fishermans on Saturday 23 October to raise funds for the Kommetjie Ratepayers association to ensure that four proposed developments (three residential and one commercial) conform to all due process, and are properly thought out with the town's best interests at heart, to ensure adequate planning to open spaces, tasteful commercialisation, proper and independent environmental assessment, adequate road and sanitary infrastructure, and more. Development in a small surf village like Kommetjie everyone, including people who just come to surf. - Mike Schlebach

18 October 2010 Recently the Tsitsikamma MPA (Marine Protected Area) has come under threat of being opened to fishing. Here is the story as told by Shaheen Moolla, Director of Feike, Natural Resource Management Advisers, and legal advisor to AfriOceans.

Thursday 14 October 2010 What is the most impressive surfing manouvre: the boost, or the barrel? In the old days, airs were avoided, barrels were not, much. Nowadays, crazy aerial antics are de riguer. Names like sushi roll, superman and rodeo clown have vets like Rip Curl Pro Portugal winner Kelly Slater - aged 38 - pulling them off. But which is the more impressive? Which move gets you a ten nowadays? A combo? Here's comparative photo evidence from the last few days - boosts and barrels.