Ever since the movie
Endless Summer
was released in 1966, surfers have been searching for the perfect wave.
At the time, they were nicknamed the Wave Chasers.
While only a handful enjoyed this unique lifestyle, the number of practitioners in France today is estimated at 680,000.
Since 2021, surfing has even become an Olympic sport.
This shows how much the discipline has evolved.
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But now the waves are overcrowded and, to the great despair of surfers, they do not multiply ad infinitum.
Sometimes they even disappear, as was the case in Mundaka in Spain.
Sand dredging at the mouth of the river got the better of this beautiful world famous left.
To avoid this ecological tragedy, Erwan Simon, a Breton surfer, had the idea, thanks to his association France Hydrodiversité, to protect an area of thirty hectares of ocean in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon, and to prevent in this reserve any human intervention.
The…
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