In 1952, Jack O'Neill opened the first-ever "surf shop" in Santa Cruz, a novel idea that soon spread throughout California ...

Surfers are not all the same. Across the coasts we dress differently, we listen to different music, and most notably, we ...

Current medium period north-northwest swell will continue to decline tonight and shift to a more northerly direction. Another ...

A slight increase in choppy east shore surf is expected late Monday though mid-week as trade winds rebuild. Surf along south ...

Can you get away with using a hand-me-down fiberglass surf fishing rod that is yellowed with aga and abuse. Yes. But just because you can, doesn’t mean you’ll catch fish. However, with the right, high ...

Small refraction action picked up late in the day on Wednesday. Heard it was fun at some spots but not all. Before that we had a pretty nice swell upcoast with offshore winds all day. In a colder ...

Some people are hitting the water to deal with mental health issues. In the latest installment in our "Breaking the Stigma" series, CBS News New York's Cindy Hsu went to the beach in the Rockaways to ...

If you find the ocean as peaceful as you do exciting, it may not surprise you much to learn that ocean-based sports, like surfing, have long been described as therapeutic. Only in recent years have ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...