Ok, this is not really “surf news that matters”

Lindsay Lohan had yet another body part escape her clothing, when her right breast plopped out of her bathing suit while body surfing in Miami.

So, in less than a week we’ve exposed two breasts and a hoo-hah.

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Coming soon to a surfing lineup near you: jet-powered boards designed to make paddling, catching and even riding waves easier and more enjoyable.
“Wavejet” surfboards, after 10 years of development, are set to debut as part of a U.S. demo tour this summer. They’ll sell for $4,500 apiece, or about five times the cost of an ordinary board, and enable surfers to paddle at two to three times their normal speed.
It’s hoped the boards will pique the interest of surfers of all levels, but they figure to be most attractive to aging surfers with waning arm strength and perhaps lifeguards who would benefit from swifter access to victims during rescue operations.
Purists, of course, will cringe at the notion, as they cringed 15 years ago when “tow surfers” began to catch waves while being pulled from ropes behind jet-powered personal watercraft; and more recently when the standup, or SUP phenomenon began.
“I’d say about 95% of the people are going to say, ‘This is amazing and cool,’ but you’re always going to get those people who are angry about anything new coming into the sport,” said Steve Walden, a Wavejet board designer whose shop in Ventura, Calif., will serve as the primary outlet facility.

 

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Britain’s artificial surf reef has sunk to new depths after it was declared unsafe and closed to the public.

The controversial £3.2million reef, the first of its kind in Europe, has been plagued by controversy since it opened off Bournemouth beach in Dorset, in 2009.

The underwater structure that was meant to have transformed the resort into a surfers’ paradise has hardly been used because it produces the wrong sort of wave.

Now it has been declared a no-go zone after a routine inspection found ‘substantial changes’ to the reef’s shape has started to produce dangerous under-currents.

It is thought the concern is that surfers could risk drowning by being sucked down into gaps that have appeared in the structure as a result of the changes.

The local council is now ‘erring on the side of caution’ and has closed the reef, which is 750ft out to sea off the Boscombe area of the resort.

It consists of 55 giant submerged sand-filled bags, which are believed to have been displaced and require repositioning.

A Bournemouth council spokesman said: ‘A routine inspection carried out on March 23 shows that substantial changes have altered the profile of the reef structure.

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