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With heavy surf forecast until Saturday night, lifeguards say they expect another dangerous and busy weekend.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

Southern California lifeguards reported performing thousands of rescues last weekend amid crowded conditions, rough surf and strong rip currents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

The hurricane will bring heavy surf and strong rip currents along L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Forecasters also continue to warn of dangerous rip currents and elevated surf of 3 to 6 feet across Los Angeles and Ventura County beaches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

“The word from New York is to expect big wind and surf late tonight,” Mr. Johnson said when we stopped in at the post office so Miss Maggie could collect her mail.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

John van Rooyen regularly surfs and spear fishes at the Tinley Manor beach, about 2 miles from where he lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Efrus, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, surfs the waves in the Pacific waters off Peru.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

He grew up surfing at Makaha and now surfs all over the world, and has trained at the Slater wave pool and a Texas one.

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2023

My husband surfs, so he had a surfboard, which is a lot smaller than a paddleboard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Wanting to ask where he’s from and what his name is and if he surfs and how old he is and what school he’s going to next fall.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

After graduating in 2021, she moved to London and couch surfed for six months, before she got a job as an admin assistant at the Royal Court Theatre on its education team.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

"I had never surfed before this program," Seynabou Tall told AFP, seated beside her mother.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

This semester, a student senator told the campus paper she was glad Yale has so far surfed under the radar; she didn’t want to end up “like our peer institutions.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

They surfed together, let each other’s cats in and celebrated holidays on the small community lawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

They surfed the radio dial trying to lock on to the artificial moon’s beeping, its sound like an otherworldly cricket.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

It made possible nearly every facet of digital life, from surfing the internet to texting friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Near the French surfing hotspot of Le Grand Crohot, an AFP reporter saw violent gusts of wind whipping up flames as firefighting aircraft attempted to extinguish a rekindled fire.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

The beach is known as the home of British surfing and often hosts major national and international competitions such as Boardmasters.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Now he’s on top of the adaptive surfing world, the challenge is to stay there.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Hustling is to work what surfing the Internet is to reading.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah