Chapter: 7
Long Division
- Return of the Longboard
- Simon Anderson and his Mighty Thruster
- Surf and Destroy
- Terror from Below
- The Unsinkable Tom Carroll
- An Explosion of Talent
- Tom Curren's Mile of Style
- How to Turn a Circus into a Riot
- I Predict Waves in Your Future
- Cult of the Surf Photographer
- Video Killed the Surf Movie
- Waves for Sale
- Surf Boom Redux
- Terminally Hip
- Super-Sizing the World Tour
- Somebody Should Do Something
- Surfers vs Apartheid
- Make Room at the Top, Obrigado!
- The Last Big Wave
- Eddie Aikau's State of Grace
- A Beloved Rival
I Predict Waves in Your Future
![Sean Collins, around 1980](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/06322851b3007c8b2dcce1286a0c8a6ea8eac979-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Sean Collins, around 1980
![Sean Collins, Baja, 1980s](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/57ac4aba66964381f6c95687c42286b8a7cc0c20-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Sean Collins, Baja, 1980s
![Sean Collins, early 2000s](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/2c8fc28c965b457bc0aff4a1cfd019640592213c-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Sean Collins, early 2000s
Nobody had any real idea how waves were created, much less when they were going to arrive. A Gidget character named Lord Gallo, introduced as Malibu's “most educated” surfer, thought big surf was happening more often thanks to “all those H-bomb blasts” in the Pacific.
Tri-fins, car phones, bandeau bikini tops, and high-top sneakers all made Surfing magazine’s “What’s Hot” list for 1986. On the “What’s Not” side: Drugs, localism, and “surfing like Mark Richards.” Hottest of all was a new phone service called Surfline, located in Huntington Beach. For 55¢ a pop, Southern California could dial up a 90-second recorded message on local wave conditions. The voice wa...
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