The continuation of Surf Like You Stole Something/ Radio Surfarama.

Police in Bali have arrested a gang of fish bombers, who have been using explosives. This seems like a milestone, where explosives and cyanide fishing have long been practiced.

Thousands of starfish have beached themselves (or been washed ashore) in the UK - The sanctuary manager stated that "it has nothing to do with pollution and global warming - its just a freak of nature."

Recently the US Navy has admitted that its explosions have an impact on whales - the damage to whales ears may well be contributing to strandings.

Marine Discovery Centres is running its holiday program again, starting 2 April. Call (03) 52583344 for more information.

The legislation is back - The Government is saying that Marine National Parks will be established by November 2002. The major differences between this legislation and the version last year are:

• Two of the parks that were taken out from the ECC report were put back in (Cape Howe and Ricketts Point as a marine sanctuary).
• The ability to seek compensation for those commercial fishers that can demonstrate an economic impact.
• No Section 85 exemption in the Constitution.

The compensation has a two panel process (including review) and the abalone industry gets a separate $13 M package to reduce poaching. They have also removed the constitutional right to appeal to the Supreme Court - good for maintaining a decent democratic process.

Bells had an ugly day yesterday, but great today - but the tournament is still on schedule. Round 2 should be completed today, with the event finishing late in the week. Gary Dunne, the Media Director for Rip Curl joined us on the line to explain the format:

Round 1- everyone surfs and the winners go to round 3
Round 2- the losers surf off against each other to move to round 3
Round 3 - it gets interesting - one on one elimination to the finals

Anth, Justin and Dave then practiced their sports psychology on an number of the contestants. It was not pretty - it seemed that the younger guys seem to have bypassed much of the sports science - they just go out there and love it, and they end up being very good at it.

"Motorola Scalatron"

"Aloha Steve and Danno"

"Spiderman"

Radio Birdman

The Ramones

"The diving is going to be wonderful - no wind, dead flat calm, nice and clean”

Sea: the vis should be around 10 m, and around 18 C Sky: Clearing

Marine National Parks - an update

Justin Kemp -
Run Like You Stole Something