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    Maya Gabeira (category World Surf League surfers)
    She surfed a 22.4 m (73 ft) high wave in Nazaré, Portugal in February 2020, recorded by Guinness World Records as the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman...
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    Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness...
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    Teahupoʻo (category Big wave surfing)
    Ocean. It is known for the large, consistent surf that occurs off its shore, and resulting international surfing competitions. The village of Teahupoʻo has...
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    River surfing is the sport of surfing either standing waves, tidal bores or upstream waves in rivers. Claims for its origins include a 1955 ride of 2...
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    Angel Dust (stylized as Angel Du$t) is an American rock group formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 2013, made up of members of Turnstile and Trapped Under...
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    Women's surfing is thought to date back to the 17th century. One of the earliest records of women surfing is of princess Keleanohoana’api’api, also known...
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  • the fourth album by American alternative rock band Nada Surf. It was released via Barsuk Records in 2005. The album was produced by Death Cab for Cutie...
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    Soorts-Hossegor (category Surfing in France)
    centered around the sport of surfing, and the local beach is a world famous surf break. When possible, the town co-hosts the World Surf League yearly competitions...
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  • Kauli Vaast (category Olympic medalists in surfing)
    old, and began surfing on his own when he was six. When he was eight, Vaast surfed Teahupo'o for the first time, and won a local surfing competition, motivating...
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    premier landlocked Midwestern surf group of the '60s." The band took their name from "Trashman's Blues", a song written and recorded in 1961 by Minneapolis musician...
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  • Spot (producer) (category Record producers from California)
    American record producer best known for being the house producer and engineer for the influential independent punk record label SST Records. He styled...
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    Biarritz (category Surfing locations in France)
    destination known for the Hôtel du Palais (originally built for the Empress Eugénie c. 1855), its seafront casinos, and its surfing culture. Biarritz is located...
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  • with a napalm strike. Resisting Kilgore’s attempts to convince Lance to surf with him on the newly conquered beach, Willard gathers the sailors to board...
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    La Femme (band) (category Barclay Records artists)
    influences of groups such as the Velvet Underground, Kraftwerk, Deux, Zoulou, and surf music. The group cites Jacno and Marie et les Garçons as its two main influences...
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    Olympians Confirmed on Day 6 of the 2023 Surf City El Salvador ISA World Surfing Games". International Surfing Association. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 9 June...
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    Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records which were included aboard the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The records contain sounds...
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  • The Buttertones (category American surf music groups)
    in 2012. Their music draws upon and straddles multiple genres, including surf rock, garage rock, doo-wop, and post-punk rock, and has been described as...
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  • The Pyramids were a surf group from Long Beach, California, United States, who formed in 1961. In early 1964, they made the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot...
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    Yas Island (redirect from Du Forum)
    located in Yas Island. It has the Surf's up! Bubbles' Barrel slide which is the largest surf-able sheet wave surf in the world. The World Waterpark Association...
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  • Sheena Is a Punk Rocker (category Surf rock songs)
    to Russia (1977). The song is well known for its early 1960s influence of surf rock and bubblegum pop that influenced Joey; it has since remained one of...
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  •  2013 (2013-05-01) 7010 2.35 The mayor of Santa Barbara has apparently died in a surfing accident, and though Shawn has figured out that it wasn't accidental, the...
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    JumpStart universe, was released on October 4, 2012. Madagascar Preschool Surf n' Slide, a mobile learning game, was released by JumpStart on October 4...
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    Pixies (band) (category Elektra Records artists)
    1990s alternative rock boom, and draw on elements including punk rock and surf rock. Their music is known for dynamic "loud-quiet-loud" shifts and song...
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    Descendents (category Epitaph Records artists)
    Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson as a power-pop/surf punk band. In 1979, they enlisted Stevenson's school friend Milo Aukerman...
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  • Entertainment. It was the directorial debut of Jeffrey Darling, who died in a surfing accident in North Palm Beach in Sydney, Australia on March 27, 2022. It...
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    December 2019. "Dramatic video shows shipwreck where Navy men dived into the surf to save Mexican migrants". Los Angeles Times. 2021-05-04. Retrieved 2022-05-01...
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    Charles R. Lawrence, 50 mile IAU World Record Courtney Dauwalter, wins and course records at: Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (3-time winner), Western States...
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    his presidency of the CSI, and it was renamed to Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA), with the intention of creating a governing body for...
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  • Judd Hamilton (category United Artists Records artists)
    contributed to the music of California, and to surf music from his involvement with the T-Bones and 1960s surf groups, the Avantis and the Ventures. During...
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    Zappa recorded some songs under the name of the Soots. They were rejected by Dot Records. Later, the Mothers were also rejected by Columbia Records for...
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