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Olympic Surfing Requires a Perfect Wave — This 58-Year-Old Tech Can Bring It

Want better surfing for the Olympics? Get off Teahupo'o, away from the shore all together, and onto a wave machine. Really.

Inverse

Surfers, staff and locals make final preparations in Tahiti before the Paris Olympics begin

From wiping out on waves to building homemade speed bumps on local roads, surfers, residents and workers across Tahiti, French Polynesia, are using the final days before the commencement of the Paris Olympics to brace themselves— and the island— for the upcoming surfing competition

The Independent UK

Olympic surfing comes to Teahupo’o with beastly waves and controversy

The world’s best surfing talent will compete for glory at the iconic Tahitian reef but environmental concerns have dogged preparations

The Guardian - UK

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Tourists to be blocked from sailing too close to Capri with plans for shoreline barrier

New measures intend to keep the yachting crowd beyond the bays

The Independent UK

Why is Surfing in Tahiti for Paris Olympics?

Almost 10,000 miles will separate the competition from the opening and closing ceremonies.

Sports Illustrated

NJ beach town shuts down swimming for entire season due to bacteria levels

High fecal bacteria levels were found in the water

The Independent UK

I’m obsessed with ocean sounds: ‘I can’t see but I can hear the whole reef, like an orchestra’

Padi’s first South African blind scuba diver describes how her other senses enhance her experience underwater

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Brits have never taken to teeny tiny swimming briefs – but with celebrities getting on board, I took the plunge

They look absurd, are uncomfortable and leave precious little to the imagination. But I found they had hidden benefits, says writer Rich Pelley

The Guardian - UK

10 of the best beaches and islands in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland

With miles of dune-backed beaches and charming seaside towns, Scandinavia and Finland make great destinations for a beach holiday. Here’s our pick

The Guardian - UK

How to spend a weekend in Cork — Ireland's foodie capital

With a burgeoning foodie scene and some of the best pubs in the world, Cork isn’t to be overlooked in favour of Ireland’s bigger counties. Meg Honigman checks in to two of its best hotels to discover its best dishes — and stouts, of course

Evening Standard

Why these Scottish towns are the best places to live by the sea in the UK

See why these four towns in Scotland were named among the best places in the UK to live by the sea for 2024.

The National (Scotland)

Sunbed wars escalate in Spain with €250 fine for reserving beach spots

Items seen on the sand before 9.30am will be confiscated in one Spanish seaside town

The Independent UK

This pretty Northumberland spot has been voted the best seaside town in the UK

Visitors were awed by the ‘magnificent’ and ‘totally unspoiled’ Bamburgh beach

The Independent UK

Bamburgh judged UK’s best seaside destination by Which? readers for fourth year

Northumbrian village was named as nation’s favourite, just ahead of Portmeirion and St Andrews

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Why this 'wonderfully scenic' seaside town in Fife was named the THIRD best in the UK

A location in Scotland has been named one of the best seaside towns in the UK - Here's why.

The Guardian - UK

Baltic beauty: exploring Estonia’s northern coast

Mossy marshes, sunny beaches and summer cabins surrounded by flowers recall the childhood idyll of Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book, set in the Gulf of Finland

The Independent UK

The wave "at the end of the road": A look at the unique features of the Olympic Games surf spot

This month some of the world’s best surfers will travel to Tahiti, French Polynesia, to compete for gold on what is referred to as one of the heaviest waves in the world

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Olympic surfing brings to light often overlooked history of women at Teahupo’o

The WSL have revived women’s events at the heavy wave in Tahiti but past surfing feats are only now being recalled ahead of the Paris Games

The Independent UK

Mallorca hoteliers fear bare beaches due to sunbed shortage will drive British tourists away

Evening Standard

Best beach blankets and mats for a day by the sea

Sun, sea and suspiciously good beach accessories

The Guardian - UK

Costa del Sol council denies plan to fine people peeing in the sea

Beachgoers express amusement and doubt at Marbella’s attempts to clean up its coastline

The Independent UK

The beach that shows the British seaside holiday is alive and well

Edd Dracott debates whether the seaside traditions of our Victorian predecessors are still what they’re cracked up to be

The Independent UK

British tourist, 33, dies while diving at famous Greek shipwreck in ‘rough seas’

British diver dies at Epanomi Shipwreck in northern Greece

The Guardian - UK

Search called off for boy, 14, missing after swimming in River Mersey

Coastguard says search for teenager at Crosby beach ‘stood down, pending further information’

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