Santa Cruz Surfboards is proud to announce the launch of its new website at santacruzsurfboards.com.

The new website provides surfers with all the information they need on the latest Santa Cruz Surfboards, Cruzer skateboards, apparel, team and more. Santacruzsurfboards.com also uses the Shopatron ecommerce system where consumers can buy products online to be fulfilled by various Santa Cruz Surfboards retailers.

Site visitors will enjoy a constantly updated blog, watch videos and enter to win new product every month. A detailed explanation of Santa Cruz’s new ProFlex EPX technology that is available on the Ozzie Wright, Matt Archbold, Christian Fletcher, & Shawn “Barney” Barron pro models can be found in the tech section.

Robert “Wingnut” Weaver, director of marketing and sales for Santa Cruz Surfboards has this to say “Our new site allows us to present SANTA CRUZ in the detail that the  surfboards deserve! The surfboard line is super tight and graphically fits into Santa Cruz Skateboards history! It’s never looked so good”.

Santa Cruz team rider “Ozzie Wright” had this to say about the site “Epic site dudes! Love it!! Cheers, Ozzy” Visit santacruzsurfboards.com for all the latest Santa Cruz news and happenings, and check back regularly for product, team, & event news.

Matt Warshaw, a lifelong surfer and chronicler of the sport, was nowhere near the water in 2004 when he first saw the view that reminded him of what he was missing. Mr. Warshaw, 49, is a former editor of Surfer magazine and the author of “The Encyclopedia of Surfing” and the coming book “The History of Surfing.” For years, he lived in San Francisco’s Sunset District, where he had panoramic ocean views and 12 surfboards in the closet. A nondescript bench in a pocket park on the slopes of Twin Peaks changed his perspective.

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What started as a weekend surfing trip to the Outer Banks ended tragically when a 15-year-old Pender County teen drowned Friday after his surfboard became entangled in a fishing pier.

The teenage boy, Craig Marshall, a student at Topsail High School in Hampstead, was surfing with a group of eight teenagers on Hatteras Island when the current dragged him into Avon Fishing Pier sometime around 11:30 a.m., said Bob Helle, the assistant chief with the Hatteras Island Rescue Squad.

Helle said the leash on Marshall’s surfboard – the cord that connects the surfer to his board – became tangled in the pylons, trapping him in the rough waters beneath the pier.

“Basically, his leash held him there underwater,” Helle said.

Rescuers had a difficult time reaching Marshall because of waves 8 to 10 feet high and a fast current, Helle said. Eventually, the surf board broke and Marshall’s body was recovered shortly before 1 p.m.

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