Sam George

The author opines and pays tribute, to the art of changing before jumping into the ocean to surf. It's always been an art.

'surfEXPLORE — Discovering New Surfing Locations Worldwide,' is John Seaton Callahan's new book profiling 28 countries where Callahan focused his lens.

Editor's Note: “Scrapbook” is a limited series from The Inertia's Sam George, in which the longtime surf scribe draws from a vast trove of personal

Following a violent clash in Tenerife, many online commentators opined about the glory days of surf localism. Sam George takes a look at the odd trend.

The North Atlantic can be a foreboding place. Dark, cold, and big. The author recounts a trip to Scotland, and his own chase for empty surf and a lonely lineup.

Standard airway management in deteriorating super morbidly obese patients can lead to cardiovascular collapse because of their poor physiological reserves. In this report, we describe a case of awake tracheal intubation in a super morbidly obese patient who was rapidly deteriorating in the intensive care unit. The patient was approached as having a physiologically difficult airway, and therefore, we accounted for the four Hs: hypoxia, hypotension (systemic), hydrogen ions (metabolic acidosis) and hypertension (pulmonary). To optimise these patient factors, we administered pre- and apnoeic oxygen through a high-flow nasal cannula to prevent hypoxia. Awake video laryngoscopy was performed to avoid cardiovascular compromise that could arise from using sedation/induction agents. Intravenous metaraminol was run in parallel to fluid support to reduce cardiovascular compromise risks and worsening acidosis. Approaching the patient as an anatomically and physiologically difficult case provided a safe technique for securing an extremely challenging airway.

in the winter of 2008, Greg Long, Grant Baker, Mike Parsons and Brad Gerlach set off in the middle of a raging storm to Cortes Bank in search of giant waves.

in the winter of 2008, Greg Long, Grant Baker, Mike Parsons and Brad Gerlach set off to Cortes Bank in the middle of a raging storm in search of giant waves.

From his earliest days shooting waves, and surfers, in La Jolla, California, to dozens of winters on the North Shore, photographer Jeff Divine has seen it all.

The author visited Revel Surf outside Mesa, Arizona and found as much stoke as you'd witness on a beach in California. Maybe even more.