The National Weather Service in Honolulu has issued a high surf advisory starting tonight for north and west facing shores of Niihau and Kauai and the north facing shores of Oahu and Molokai.
A northwest swell will arrive tonight with advisory level surf remaining through Thursday night. The swell was generated two days ago by a [...]

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PRESS RELEASE
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. –(BUSINESS WIRE)– Ocean Minded, Inc. is honored to welcome Bethany Hamilton, one of surfing’s brightest and most inspirational stars, to its team of athletes. Hamilton, world renown for her determination and courage, lives her life with a purpose and spirit that is unparalleled.
“I’m very stoked to be joining Ocean Minded, a [...]

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Feds sentence Mike Smith; Curt Smith awaits February court date for same cocaine-dealing charges
Former Hanapepe resident and surf magazine cofounder Mike Smith has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in a federal prison, federal authorities said yesterday.
Mike and his brother, Curt Smith, were indicted by a grand jury in June for attempting to traffic roughly [...]

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Lifeguards to protect Ke‘e Beach
Swimmers and snorkelers at one of Kauai’s most popular beaches will soon be better protected when they enter the azure waters on the North Shore.
More than $700,000 in state money will be spent this year to fund four water safety officers, a tower, truck, ATV, trailer, beach dolly, personnel gear and [...]

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Hawaiian Alana Blanchard (Kauai) outclassed a quality field of young European surfers today to win the Rip Curl Girls Pro Junior in small 1-3ft (0.5-1m) waves at Liencres Beach in Spain.
The 17-year-old also wins a Wildcard entry into Round 1 of the Rip Curl Girls World Tour contest - Stop 4 of 7 on this [...]

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Ka-ume ka-iwa, the beautiful beach between Moloa’a and Kilauea, derived its modern name, Larsen’s Beach, from the manager of the Kilauea Sugar Plantation in the 1920s.
Larsen’s has claimed two lives in the last few months.
One was a visitor from Bellingham, Wash., who left behind a pregnant wife. The other was one of our fine local [...]

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