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TED-Ed

The Complicated History of Surfing

6th - 12th
Beach Boys and beach bunnies, woodies and long boards, the Billabong Pipeline Masters and Quicksilver Big Wave Invitational. Ah, but there's much more to surfing  than riding waves. A short video traces the sometimes dark history of...
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Science for Kids

Science Kids: Earth Videos: Surfing a Tsunami

9th - 10th
Hard-to-believe video of a surfer riding a tsunami-like wave and surviving. (Length: 1 min. 30 sec.)
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The Guardian

Guardian: Waterproof: A History of Australian Surfing Since 1858 in Pictures

9th - 10th
From the first known photograph of an Australian surf spot to the 20th century boom in surfing, photographer John Ogden's book Waterproof looks at surf and ocean photography through a broad lens and pays homage to some of the sport's...