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  2. Surfline - Wikipedia

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    Surfline was founded in 1985 as a pay-per-call telephone surf report based on weather, the National Weather Service's buoy data, [9] and telephone reports from young surfers that travelled to beach sites to observe the waves in-person.

  3. Hawaii beaches threatened by 35-foot waves as dangerous surf ...

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    A High Surf Warning is in effect until 6 p.m. Thursday for the north- and west-facing shores of Niihau, Kauai, Oahu and Molokai, as well as the north-facing shores of Maui.

  4. Sean Collins (surf forecaster) - Wikipedia

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    In 1985, Collin's founded a surf report service called Surfline. The company started as a call-in service, which provided verbal condition reports for various surf breaks around Southern California. [6] In 1995, Surfline moved online, offering live video streams of surf breaks in addition to written surf reports. [7]

  5. The Wedge (surfing) - Wikipedia

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    The combination of danger, along with the chance to get pitted (enclosed in the tube, barrel, or "pit" of a wave), draws many to surf the Wedge. [ citation needed ] The Wedge breaks largest when intense Southern Hemisphere storms or large tropical cyclones send their long period energy from the south-southwest direction, primarily during the ...

  6. Surf forecasting - Wikipedia

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    Surf forecasting is the process of using offshore swell data to predict onshore wave conditions. It is used by millions of people across the world, including professionals who put their forecasts online, meteorologists who work for news crews, and surfers all over the world.

  7. Sun and Moon Bay - Wikipedia

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    Sun and Moon Bay (Chinese: 日月湾; pinyin: Rì Yuè Wān), also known as Riyue Bay, is located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Wanning, Hainan, China ...

  8. Hawaiian scale - Wikipedia

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    Miyake reports [3] that the Surf News Network [4] expresses wave heights as "2/3 the height of the wave from crest to trough." This heuristic finds mathematical support as a compromise between two methods of expressing the combined effects of a wave's average upward and average downward deviations from mean sea level, namely a) the sum of the absolute value of a sine wave's average (mean ...

  9. 2025 World Surf League - Wikipedia

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    The 2025 World Surf League is the 48th season of all iterations of the tour circuit for professional surfers. Billabong Pipe Masters will be the first round of the tour. [1] For the first time, the season will end Cloudbreak, in Tavarua, Fiji, will host the WSL Finals to determine the 2025 World Champions. It is the first time the WSL Finals ...