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UK surfers fight to save Brighton Marina's wave
Friday, 23 January 2009 15:21

Brighton Marina 

A planning application has been submitted for a 5-storey office building which would straddle the eastern wall of the Brighton Marina and require the driving of 186 piles to create a concrete platform to the east of the Marina.  In view of the height above sea-level of the pile-supported platform the visual impact will be similar to that of an eight storey block (the height of Marine Gate flats).

The development would provide 7933 square metres of office space (for 620 employees), 274 square metres of retail space and nine 3-bed flats. No affordable housing is apparently proposed, and the flats would appear to be unsuitable for family occupation.

Large numbers of surfers who regularly exercise their exciting sport in the turbulent waters to the east of the Marina believe that the piles could dangerously interfere with currents which make this one of the UK's best places for surfing.  The developers have tried to defuse the opposition by offering a storage area in the new development for surfing equipment.  But what is the point in storing surfing equipment at a location no longer suitable for surfing?

There is no evidence that this is a suitable location for such a substantial office development or that the nine existing car-parking spaces (and the provision of no new ones) would be adequate.  Nor is there any evidence that further retail space is required in the Marina at a time when the economy is sinking into recession.

The development's bulk and proximity to the cliff mean that it would block the excellent cliff view to the west of the Marina currently seen by people walking along the undercliff walk from the east. 

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Kelly Slater confirmed in the 2009 ASP World Tour
Thursday, 22 January 2009 15:53

2009 ASP Dream Tour 

The 2009 ASP World Tour is set to commence in just over a month, and the ASP Top 45 is looking set and shaping up to be one of the most explosive the world has ever seen.

Nine-times ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA), 36, will be back to hunt down ASP World Title No. 10, but standing in his way will be the best of the best.

Bede Durbidge (AUS), 25, and fellow top seeds Taj Burrow (AUS), 30, Joel Parkinson (AUS), 27, and C.J. Hobgood (USA), 29, will lead the rest of the ASP Top 45 in their respective bids to put a stop to the Slater juggernaut.

The official withdrawals of the Irons brothers and the acceptance of replacement surfers are in place, and the 2009 ASP Top 45 are finally locked in.

Roy Powers (HAW), 27, will be replacing Bruce Irons (HAW), 29, who finished No. 20 on last season’s ASP World Tour but will be retiring from full-time competition in 2009. Despite the withdrawal from the Dream Tour, Irons will pursue wildcard entries into events.

Michael Campbell (AUS), 34, former ASP World No. 2, will replace former three-time ASP World Champion Andy Irons (HAW), 30, on the 2009 ASP World Tour. Irons the elder will be taking 2009 to recuperate and has been awarded the ASP Wildcard for the 2010 ASP World Tour.

“Andy Irons requested and was granted an ASP Tour wildcard for 2010,” Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, ASP President, said. “Andy cited personal reasons for not participating in the full tour in 2009, however he may participate in certain pet events as an event wildcard. All stakeholders, being the surfers, the Events Council and ASP Management, were supportive of Andy’s request, and the ASP Board of Directors ratified this arrangement officially.”

“Andy will be sorely missed in 2009 and we look forward to him contending again from 2010,” Bartholomew said. “Each year, three tour wildcards are issued, they are for injury, they are sometimes granted to next in line WQS and they are also granted to former ASP World Champions or someone held in high esteem.”

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'Waveriders' surfing movie nominated for the Irish Film & Television Academy Awards
Tuesday, 20 January 2009 17:00

Waveriders 

'Waveriders' US Premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at 7.30pm on Wednesday 28th January 2009 in the Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara.

'Waveriders' cinema release throughout Ireland & UK on April 3rd 2009.

'Waveriders' has been nominated for two IFTAs (Irish Film & Television Academy Awards) in Best Sound and Best Feature Documentary.

Waveriders is the previously untold story of the unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing phenomenon and today’s pioneers of Irish big wave surfing.

The story unfolds through the inspirational and ultimately tragic history of Irish/Hawaiian legendary waterman, George Freeth. Freeth, son of an Irishman, was responsible for the rebirth of this sport of Hawaiian kings in the early twentieth century.

With its distinguished cast of world-renowned Irish, British and Irish/American surfers WAVERIDERS journeys full-circle from Hawaii to California and back to Irish shores following Freeth’s wave of influence.

This journey reaches a spectacular climax when the surfers conquer the biggest swell ever to have been ridden in Ireland catching monster waves of over fifty feet.

The film was financed by the European Union through the Interreg IIIA Programme managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by the ICBAN Partnership, Northern Ireland Screen, The Irish Film Board / Bord Scannán na hÉireann, BBC Northern Ireland and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.

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