Next week Surfrider Foundation will front a public hearing to support legislation to ban microbeads from personal care and laundry products. Make sure your name is on the petition.

“Two years since I won an event, and it was this one," laughed Slater. “I’m stoked, it’s been a while between drinks as they say in Australia."

"When people speak truth and they throw things in the face of what is popular, those are people you can trust."

Phil Jarratt bids adieu to Lester Brien, the hot surfer, hip lawyer, drug smuggler, and accomplished author. "It was always a crack-up with Lester."

There's nothing like being serenaded by the sweet sounds of contemporary Hawaiian music, as you're mowed down by a forty-foot wave.