Mentawai Tsunami Relief – How you can help

27 October 2010 A 7.5 magnitude earthquake has struck just south of the Mentawai Islands sending a 2-3 metre (6-10 foot) tsunami into the southern island of Pagai Selatan. The quake hit at 9.42pm local time on Monday 25 October. SurfAid International is launching an...

Mentawai Tsunami Incident Report

The following is a brief account of the Tsunami incident at Macaroni’s on Pagai Island, Mentawais, West Sumatra based on reports received directly from the crew of Freedom 3 who were involved first hand in the
 situation.  Time of writing is 16:00GMT on October...

Tsunami hits The Mentawais

On Monday, October 25, 2010 at 09:42:22 pm a 7.7 earthquake struck the Kepulauan Mentawai region of Indonesia causing a massive tsunami. Two of our charter boats were anchored in the bay at Macaronis Resort, the Midas and the Freedom III. When the 10-foot wave moved...

Surfer Magazine Survey

The November 2010 issue of Surfer Magazine published results from a survey where approx. 2,000 of their readers responded to surf related questions and here are a few of the results that we felt were pretty interesting. 1 out of 3 have never been on an overseas surf...