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Australia is about half way through getting its Tsunami Warning System implemented. Australia basically had none until the aftermath of the 2004 Aceh event. The Hilo Hawaii event precipitated the Pacific Tsunami warning system in the 1960s. Hawaii being exposed to Kamchatka, Japan, Alaska, Californi...

[I wrote offline before reading Nick's reply] The following sounds like a mushie trip, but I’m pretty confident on most of the details. I weaned myself of surf mags more than 20 years ago, but if my memory serves me... Around about 1984 (give or take), a woman by the name of Cougar Wicce-Otter (I’m ...

It’s probably fair game to call BS on the Manly Daily at times, but not this one. The waverider buoy is about 10 km offshore in 85 m of water. The surface water measured there is about as warm as you will ever get at the beach, but the beach can be much colder. If you look at the attached image whic...

I have too many other interests to spend much time in these forums, but it's a friday arvo and this one got me out. Anyone up for some size? The waverider buoy of Cape Sorell (west coast Tassie) recorded a maximum wave of 19.5m yesterday (65ft). If this data is correct, it may well be an internation...

I've heard lots of witchdoctery on full moon swells and new moon swells. WA's " Camp of the moon " is another place beset by such rumours and it's far from the refractive effects of tidal currents and has a spring tidal range of about 1.5 metres. There may be something in it though. One week either ...

The scary bit is One Mile Point could become Three Mile Island.

If you're too young for the words "Three Mile Island" to prickle you, look 'em up on your friend google.

Lucky Al: I’ve kept a journal for decades. The default format has to be brief or you can lapse. It’s your journal, so format it how you want. As a guide I put: time, place, wave height, wave direction, period, wind direction and strength, AND a quality out of 10. Quality 1 would be below knee high ...

Interesting words Oldman, 2nd Reef and others. I often have a low opinion of the intellect of many surfers. I'm delighted to realise that I may be sharing the joy of waves with such kindred spirits. On reading your posts, that guy who yelled OI FUGOFF! the other day was probably imploring me to read...

You're probably thinking of Audrey Mestre.
This is one time when Google WILL take care of any further curiosity.

Convection winds (seabreezes) should blow directly onshore but the same process pushes the wind to the left so you end up with NE in Sydney and SE'ers in Perth (The Freo Doctor). How'd I go? 9 out of 10 2nd Reef. Does the deduction of 1 mark relegate you to 1st reef or 3rd reef? The west coast of W...

You may be dealing with addicts competing for scarce resources, so ugly behaviour can prevail. You have several strategies, some of which are repeated from others: 1. Befriend them 2. Fight fire with fire 3. Become a local – that way snaking becomes your birthright 4. Befriend the local alpha males ...

Here's a basic simplified calculation, which is a bit conservative, but plausible. You have a 23" wide mal hanging 3 ft out front from your windscreen (bit extreme), and your windscreen is steepish (like the Jeep example). At 110 km/h the uplift force would be approx 60 kg. This is like a big lever ...

I worry about the long term effects of exposure to the chemicals in sun screen products-anyone? You may remember that more than about 10 years ago, SPF 15+ was the highest that could be bought in Oz. This is because the regulator didn’t want to invoke an SPF war among manufacturers, with gullible c...

The longest swell peroid ever? Apart from period being spelt wrong, this is the first sensible post I've seen from you here. First, we'll confine it to wind generated waves. As others have stated, tsunamis have very long periods, and your everyday humble tide (forced by moon, sun etc) has a period ...

I'm feeling like a Dr Karl wannabe here. Think about how many reos you could fit in in an olympic pool on a down the line wave like good superbank. We'll keep it at the 2 m face wave. Maybe Wanto and Snakes can do 2, but us old cruisers may be down to one, which I'll use for now. Again the young shr...

Wet women in lycra or rubber have always done it for me, but if you have too much of a shopping list for partner attributes, you cut yourself off from many a chance discovery. Ms Dolphin has been a surfer for 15 years. We had more fun together as surfers before kids (2 now), but still have fun. Cert...

are you from asr ltd dolphin? No! There are some big egos there and the missus says Raglan is too cold. As for distance between swell lines. I didn't answer it directly as I thought most surfers would be interested in length and speed. I did say: Local wavelength (gap) is: L = c*T So if for this ca...

In law, the Reasonable person was famously described as "the man on the Clapham bus". Apologies to the 50% of the populace who can't meet that criteria without an operation, but it's a very straightforward criterion. For surf spot publicity, I would think that most surfers of voting age who are not ...