Save the Waves Coalition News

Source: Save the Waves Coalition - www.savethewaves.org

'All Points South' in New York

The second annual New York Surf Film Festival has announced that it will screen a special extended teaser of Save The Waves' latest film project, 'All Points South' during the 3-day film festival in Manhattan in late September. 'All Points South' follows the story of surfers and fishermen activists in Chile and their struggle against forestry industry pollution of coastal waters and waves.

More information about 'All Points South': www.allpointssouth.org

More information and schedule of the New York Surf Film Festival: www.nysurffilm.com

The screening of 'All Points South' during the festival is at 7:50pm on Saturday, September 26 at Tribeca Cinemas in lower Manhattan.

World Surfing Reserves/Google Earth

Save The Waves and the International Surfing Association have made immense progress in establishing World Surfing Reserves (WSR) to protect waves and recreational surfing zones forever. Although only a few sites will be enshrined annually, surfing federations across the globe have submitted their nominated waves to be enshrined.

Google Earth is a free program from Google that aids user in seeing the earth in a new way. The program allows you to fly to and visit geographic locations at a 90 degree angle, as well as zooming in and rotating your position to view the image in three dimensions. If you have not tried the program, you should - it's truly awesome!

Using Google Earth, Save The Waves has constructed a map of all the WSR nominees, available for you to download at the links below. With this map you can tour all of the nominated waves at once, or country by country. If you are not familiar with Google Earth, our map will appear in the sidebar in the "Places" section as a file labeled “WSR_Nominated_Waves.kmz” once opened.

Double-click on the file to open the WSR folder where you will find each country and their nominated waves. In the bottom left-hand corner of the "Places" section is the tour feature. With this feature you have the ability to take a global tour by using the WSR folder that comprises all waves. Or, you can also tour one country at a time by using the individual country folders separately.

WSR nominees map is a work in progress, so look out for updates and your feedback will be appreciated. Enjoy!

Download Google Earth here.

Download the World Surfing Reserves Plug-in here.

About the International Surfing Association (ISA)
The International Surfing Association (ISA) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the World Governing Authority for Surfing. It was originally founded as the International Surfing Federation in 1964 and has been running world championships since 1964 and the Junior World Championships since 1980.

ISA membership includes the surfing National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of over 50 countries on six continents. Its headquarters are located in La Jolla, California. It is presided by Fernando Aguerre, first elected in 1994 in Rio, and re-elected six times since. The ISA's four Vice Presidents are Alan Atkins (Australia), Robin de Kock (South Africa), Mike Gerard (USA) and Karín Sierralta (Peru).

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