HUNTINGTON BEACH A circle the size of a football field made up of surfers stretched across the ocean near the Huntington Beach Pier. In what many say is the biggest memorial tribute ever held for a surfer in Huntington Beach, friends, family and the surf community gathered on Sunday to pay respects to Surfline founder [...]
By: Writer/Photographer: Chris MacDonald, The Local News Columnist More than 700 people, including 36th District of California Congresswoman Janice Hahn, and Los Angeles Fourth District Council Member Tom LaBonge, ran into the 57 degree water at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro to celebrate the New Year. Hundreds of spectators cheered and waved at the annual [...]
It has been a slow start to the winter swell season, but with the biggest waves in a long time expected to hit this weekend, we thought it would be fun to see how our readers capture the action along the O.C. coast. Break out your cameras for the “January Big Wave Photo Contest” and submit [...]
A group of about a dozen orcas has been spotted all week from Orange County to the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and whale-watchers saw five of the so-called killer whales harassing a gray whale Wednesday morning. “These are the same ones that we had for the past two days,” said Alisa Schulman-Janiger, head of the [...]
This weekend has almost everything to make the 2012 Seal Beach Surfing Championships perfect. The National Weather Service is predicting 10-foot waves Saturday along with sunny warm weather for early January, and this weekend marks the opening of the contest’s waiting period. But Surfline founder Sean Collins, the man who helped initiate the contest more than [...]
It was a hazy start to the New Year – not because of all the alcohol consumed the night before, but because of the thick fog blanket that lingered on the sand. But just as noon approached on Sunday the thick fog disappeared, allowing more than a hundred revelers to plunge into a sunny New Year [...]
Jump into the frigged ocean … without a wetsuit?! Are you crazy? There are plenty of people who will be shrieking and screaming as they rush into the chilly water on the north side of the Huntington Beach Pier at noon on New Years Day, washing off the old and getting a good cleanse for [...]
Sean Collins, founder of Surfline (and surfline.com) passed away from a heart attack the day after Christmas, Dec. 26, 2011, while playing tennis in Newport Beach. He’s shown in the photo speaking to the audience when he received his hand and footprints on the the HSS Surfers Hall of Fame around 2008. Collins was known [...]
It’s looking like it’s going to be a fun weekend for surf – and if you were good this year, you might get a fun session in. For those of you who were naughty, no doubt you’ll get skunked! Today was one of those beautiful days – clean through the morning, a bit offshore, sun [...]
Brian Robertson, CEO of the Seal Beach-based solar power company Amonix, died Thursday in a plane crash in Pennsylvania.The married father of three was 38. “We are devastated by this tragic accident,” said Amonix Founder, CTO and Chairman of the Board Vahan Garboushian. “Brian was an incredible leader and our heart goes out to his [...]
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