Arts & Entertainment Longtime Ocean Beach Surf Shop Owner Bob Wise Dies at Age 74 In the surfer community of San Francisco and beyond, if you've been in it a good while, you probably knew about Bob Wise and his half-century-old surf shop at Ocean Beach, Wise Surfboards.
SF News Surfing Legend And Wetsuit Pioneer Jack O'Neill Dies At 94 You may not know that the wetsuit was invented in San Francisco, but by some accounts it was, and its creator has just died after a long life in Northern California surf community.
SF News World Famous Surfer, Now Homeless, Questioned And Released In Santa Cruz Homicide Onetime surfing legend Kevin Reed, a.k.a. Kevin Callahan, was arrested Sunday and questioned by Santa Cruz police in connection to the death of another man whose body was found by some
Arts & Entertainment Mavericks Officially Canceled Following Bankruptcy Swell or no swell, there will be no Mavericks this year. Following the news this week that organizers had filed for bankruptcy protection amid some outstanding debts and a lawsuit from sponsor Red
SF News Mavericks Surf Competition To Welcome Female Surfers For The First Time The famed Mavericks surf competition down near Half Moon Bay, which held its tenth event in February since being founded in 1999, will be welcoming female competitors for the first time when and
SF News Shark Spotted Right Next To Surfers At Pacifica Beach Attacking Seal Video taken by surfers at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica on Sunday morning shows a shark, very close to shore, making breakfast of a seal. KRON 4 picked up the news, and got
SF News Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants $30 Million For His Beach Access, National Media Shames Him The saga of Sun Microsystems founder and local billionaire Vinod Khosla and his beachfront property south of Half Moon Bay came up in the news again in the past week after Khosla laid
SF News Mavericks Is On This Friday The "call alert" on the Titans of Mavericks official site has been upgraded to green for "Event On", and CBS 5 that organizers made a final decision this afternoon to issue the call
Arts & Entertainment The Super Bowl Is Ruining Mavericks Now Too As discussed back in January, the big-wave surfing competition now known as Titans of Mavericks has been on the horizon for weeks now each year organizers monitor the swells and call the competition
Arts & Entertainment Video: Surfer Wipes Out Epically On 50-Foot Mavericks Wave We mentioned Friday that the Mavericks big-wave surf competition, now known as Titans of Mavericks, could get called any time in the next few weeks according to the four-color alert legend on the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Surfer Mark Healey Dives Off Boat Into Huge Wave At Mavericks Not wanting to get thrown around on the boat that was about to get knocked with a huge wave, surfer Mark Healey who is also a stunt man took a flying leap off
SF News California Surfer Survives Great White Shark Attack An unnamed 50-year-old surfer has survived a shark attack involving an 8 to 10 foot juvenile great white shark. The attack took place Sunday at Montaña de Oro State Park, reports the San
SF News SFFD Called To Ocean Beach To Rescue Distressed Swimmers Four Times Wednesday It was a tough day at Ocean Beach Wednesday. The San Francisco Fire Department and the US Coast Guard responded to four — yes, four — reports of swimmers in trouble, and rescued three men,
SF News Applaudable Teen Rescues Two Swimmers At Ocean Beach, One Still Missing Wednesday afternoon around 4 p.m., emergency crews from the San Francisco Fire Department and the Coast Guard received calls about three distressed swimmers at Ocean Beach near Lincoln Way. A 14-year-old boy
SF News Big-Wave Surfer Breaks Neck At Ocean Beach Day Before Mavericks Renowned big-wave surfer Mike Parsons, catching some practice breaks last Saturday at Ocean Beach before Mavericks on Sunday, severely injured himself after he was knocked down and his head hit the water "really
Arts & Entertainment Gerard Butler Almost Drowned at Mavericks, You Guys The local webs are abuzz this a.m. with news that movie star and convincing Greek warrior Gerard Butler got held under water and maybe could have drowned yesterday while filming a scene
SF News Surfer Dies at Ocean Beach A surfer was spotted floating unconscious in the water near Ocean Beach around 1 p.m. yesterday. He was later identified as Jonathan Luhn, age 44, after being pulled from the water by
SF News Mavericks Is ON for Saturday! The 2010 Mavericks Surf Contest is on for this Saturday, and 24 international surf champions now have 48 hours to hop planes and the get their asses to Half Moon Bay, as the
SF News Surfers Totally Mad About Ocean Beach Bluff Plan Speaking of surfers, SF Weekly talked to some surfers this week who are pissed about Public Works' plan to dump some boulders along the fast eroding bluffs along Ocean Beach. They're in favor
SF News Surfer Rescued After Surfboard Washes Ashore in Half Moon Bay Picture it: You're on the beach watching your boyfriend catch some big breaks off Dunes Beach in Half Moon Bay. Darkness is falling. You lose sight of him as the waves start getting
