A-frame

Aaberg, Denny

Aaberg, Kemp

Abberton, Koby

Abbruzzi, Sid

Abellira, Reno

Abubo, Megan

academia and surfing

Adler, Tom

advertising and surfing

Aeder, Erik

aerial

Aguerre, Fernando

Aichner, Scott

Aikau, Clyde

Aikau, Eddie

Aipa, Ben

air-drop

airbrush

Airshow

Ala Moana

Alabama

alaia board

Alaska

alcohol and surfing

Alexander, Kala

Allen, Chuck

Alms, Paige

aloha shirt

Alter, Hobie

Alvarez, Pepe

Ancell, Kevin

Andaman Islands

Andersen, Lisa

Anderson, Craig

Anderson, Simon

Andino, Kolohe

Angel, Jose

angle

Angola

Angourie

Antarctica

Apocalypse Now

Arabian Sea

Aragon, Janice

Arakawa, Eric

Archbold, Matt

Arena, Eduardo

Ashton, Juan

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP)

Atlantic Ocean

August, Robert

Aurness, Rolf

Auster, Ken

Australia

Avalon, Frankie

Azores

backdoor

backside

backside attack, Pipeline

backwash

bail out

Bain, Rob

Baja California

Baker, Bernie

Baker, Grant “Twiggy”

Baker, Tim

Bali

Ball, John “Doc”

Ballard, Bill

Ballard, Rochelle

balsa

Baltic Sea

Banks, Jim

Barbados

Barilotti, Steve

Barland, Michel

Barreda, Sergio “Gordo”

Barry, Michael

Bartholomew, Wayne

Baxter, Jackie

Bay of Bengal

Beach Boys, The

Beacham, Debbie

beachboys

beachbreak

Beachcomber Bills Grand Prix

Beachley, Layne

beavertail

Becker, Phil

Bedford-Brown, Stuart

Belgium

Bells Beach

Bendall, Ma and Pa

Bennett, Barry

Benson, Becky

Benson, Blanche

Benson, Linda

Bermuda

Bertlemann, Larry

Roughly triangular region of ocean along the central California coast, known to have the world's highest concentration of white sharks; bordered by Tomales Bay to the north, Monterey Bay to the south, and the Farallon Islands (28 miles off San Francisco) to the west. The 150-mile stretch of coastline between Monterey and Tomales includes some of mainland America's best surfing areas, including Maverick's and all of Santa Cruz. 

It is also home to thousands of full-time surfers, all of whom worry to one degree or another about shark attacks, even though just a microscopic percentage have in fact been hit. Two of the Red Triangle's best-known incidents took place almost 20 years apart. 

On December 19, 1981, 25-year-old Pacific Grove kneeboarder Lew Boren, while surfing alone at Asilomar Beach in Monterey, was killed by a white shark estimated to be 21 feet long. On September 29, 2000, Santa Barbara surfer Peck Euwer, while sitting on his board in the channel at Maverick's, was bucked into the air—but left unharmed—by a 13-foot white shark. There were 52 documented shark attacks in the Red Triangle between 1926 and 2012, five of them fatal. 

, a nonsurfing Discovery Channel documentary, aired in 1996.

Red Triangle

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