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This edition of UnderCurrents features reviews and news of a new film by Jack McCoy, featuring underwater cinematography; a film "The Searching for Michael Peterson" (with a soundtrack by The Brown Birds); Tom Wegener's "Tuna" surfcraft in "What a Kookbox”; and, a retrospective on Drew Steele's Surf Punk days.
When the notorious riot broke out at the 1986 OP Pro Surfing Championships, a renowned British fine-art photographer happened to be on hand with a single roll of film. He shot it. Then, he lost it for a quarter century. These are Nick Waplington’s Surf Riot images, along with some thoughts about what they might mean.
If aviary flight patterns mirror surf styles, is surfing just an act of nature?
Willard Bascom, The War Department, and the Wildcat Origins of Modern Surf Science.
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On being held hostage by Somali pirates, the power of optimism, his first phone call, sanity and remembrance, anger, and forgiveness.