Posted on 10/14/2016 10:33:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Some surfers are born to the breed of risktakers. There are similar people out here in California. They run toward the high waves. Not away, like regular people do. They will not be dissuaded from making the attempt to conquer these water monoliths.
‘Ride The Radioactive Surf’ was a huge 1960’s Jan and Dean hit! Hmmmmm, well, maybe I’m confused about that title......
Big!?
Risk their lives!?
NONSENSE!
They ought to try the meanest wave on the planet at Shipstern's, where the waves have waves in them.
Ping to post#5.
Check out these waves, Lee!
They give glowing reviews of the break.
Stunning and majestic. Just looking at the still photos takes your breath away!
A Surfer needs to work up to that level of competence, if such waves can be ridden at all.
Second worst release in the history of the nuclear power industry (Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island).
It took the biggest earthquake ever recorded to strike Japan (4th largest ever recorded on Earth) to cause it, but even then, it was not from the earthquake itself. It was the massive tsunami which destroyed the backup generators, so the pumps quit and three reactors overheated, till they breached their containment. They were among the oldest reactors in Japan.
Other than the first responders who went into the breached reactors themselves, no deaths were directly attributed to the radioactive release. About 15,000 were killed, and 3,000 lost by the earthquake and tsunami.
I tried surfing for the first time in my life only this past summer. Here’s a video I posted on YouTube of it. Have to admit I was a little nervous, it being my first time and all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nS_aR8XX_U
Scaremongers.
The Japanese can’t get enough of that nuclear fallout — seems like August 1945 was insufficient.
I’d rather surf Okinawa, warmer too.
The movie is mocking him, especially the redux version, but looking back he’s the most admirable character, in my opinion.
When they come down with radiation-triggered cancers, whom will they sue?
The new “Banzai Pipeline!”
That is the only place on earth that I am aware of where waves form in the face of the wave as it breaks.
it’s one thing to ride a giant wave, but another altogether when you can be launched into the air at anytime, and if you miss the landing, all the weight of the ocean slams down on top of you directly above a coral reef.
Oh and all that comes with free Great White sharks.
Those guys that surf there must be made of steel.
Did somebody say “Sharks”?!
Well, I guess they were here first.
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