Tsunami The “Impossible” Ride
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A reader-supported surf publication founded in 1992, The Surfer’s Journal is vivid, authoritative, and independent. The goal of each 132-page bimonthly edition? A completely resolved composition. Balance. Color. Story. And purist surf energy from Page One to close-of-book.
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Felipe Pomar and friend Petey Block were waiting to paddle out for exercise on the morning of October 3, 1974. Suddenly everything around them began to tremble, nearby houses collapse: earthquake. Felipe and Petey decide to paddle out and quickly find something is terribly wrong with the ocean. Paddling for their lives to make shore safely, did Felipe and Petey ride a tsunami wave that day?
