SF News U.S. Olympian, Surfer, and Famed Bay Area Swim Coach Richard Thornton Dies at 65 1980 U.S. Olympic swim team member, former U.S. national team swim coach, and four-decade coach of San Ramon Valley Aquatics Richard Thornton died while heading out to surf in Santa Cruz on Thursday, according to his family.
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.
Arts & Entertainment French Bulldog, Cherie, Wins This Year's World Dog Surfing Championships Along the Pacifica coastline this past weekend, beachgoers were treated to the usual array of breathtaking views, bouts of cetacean gymnastics—and, also, canines hanging 10 (or 20).
SF News Jet Skier Saves Mavericks Surfers From Enormous Great White Shark A professional surf rescuer managed to scare off a very large great white shark near Half Moon Bay on Sunday just as it was approaching a group of surfers.
Arts & Entertainment All The Photos And Video From This Weekend's Dog Surfing Contest In Pacifica Linda Mar State Beach in Pacifica hosted the second annual World Dog Surfing Championships on Saturday. "How often do you get a chance to see a dog ride a surfboard?" spectator Toshio Hirano
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.
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 Wipeout: Mavericks Surf Contest Organizers File For Bankruptcy Conditions have to be just right for Titans of Mavericks, the world-famous, 1999-founded surf competition at Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay. There's no fixed date or guarantee the contest will go
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 Video: World Dog Surfing Championship Wraps Up In Pacifica Surfing is already pretty cool, but when you add dogs to the mix, things get, well, super freaking adorable. So, behold Saturday's World Dog Surfing Championship held in Pacifica. As NBC Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch A Dachshund Go Surfing You know that doggy surfing competition I told you about earlier? Well it happened on Friday at the Coliseum in Oakland, with the help of that huge portable wave machine on a tractor
Arts & Entertainment Video: Women Surfers Make Waves Tomorrow At Doc Fest While some surfers chase an endless summer, the Outer Bar Babes of San Francisco clearly aren't attached to ideal, sun-drenched conditions. They surf Ocean Beach. And tomorrow the group is showing inland San
Arts & Entertainment Mavericks Wrap-Up: Nic Lamb Of Santa Cruz Takes Home Top Surfing Prize It wasn't the biggest, gnarliest, most dramatic Mavericks there ever was, but 2016's Titans of Mavericks big-wave surfing competition wrapped up Friday with more than a few wipeouts and only one winner. Nic
Arts & Entertainment You Can Watch The 2016 Mavericks Surf Competition Online As you know, the Mavericks surf competition is going on right freakin' now. Even if you didn't have to work, it would be hard to watch it in person, as your only option
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
SF News [Update] 40-Year-Old Surfer Missing And Presumed Dead Off Marin Beach A surfer who appeared to have been knocked unconscious Wednesday afternoon in rough surf of Rodeo Beach in Marin remains missing today as search crews continue their efforts to find him. Fellow surfers
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 Mavericks Waves Hit 50 Feet, Surf Competition Could Be Called Any Day The tenth edition of the famed, invitation-only Mavericks surf competition, now dubbed Titans of Mavericks, will most definitely happen during this stormy El Nino winter, it's just a matter of when as organizers
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Big Waves, Big Wipeouts At Mavericks The Mavericks Invitational big wave surfing competition went off without a hitch today. The ninth edition of the occasional contest, which only runs when conditions are ideal, saw waves cresting at more than
Arts & Entertainment Mavericks Surf Competition Is Happening Tomorrow File this one under 'more reasons to play hooky tomorrow': organizers of the big wave surf competition Mavericks Invitational have decided that conditions are ripe for the event to take place tomorrow morning.
Arts & Entertainment Aerial Footage Lets Us Watch Santa Cruz Surfers From A Gulls-Eye View While it is far from the first example of aerial drones being used to capture high-flying footage of Bay Area locations, this is the first time we're taking to the skies to observe
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
SF News Two Bay Area Men Drowned in High Surf in Kauai Two more Bay Area residents have lost their lives while in Hawaii. Best friends Adam Griffiths, 46, and Brian Baker, 47, were hiking with Griffiths' fiancée Jennifer Kwong on the rocky north shore
SF News Mavericks to Happen Sunday for the First Time in Three Years [Updated] The Mavericks surf competition, which gets announced with a minimum of 24 hours notice based on swells off the coast at Pillar Point (near Half Moon Bay), was just announced for this coming
