Weird Waves in Galveston, Texas I can surf for miles and miles and miles.
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Truth be told, Dylan Graves had already given tanker surfing a go in a former life. And he wasn’t all that impressed. Turns out, he’d been doing it all wrong. For the second episode of the third season of Weird Waves, Dylan linked up with Texas tanker surfing kingpin, Captain James Fullbright, to log a few proper rides in the Galveston shoals. Because when a wave lasts for ten minutes and peels for miles upon miles upon miles, a few is all you need. Or all your legs can take.
Dylan Graves Went Tanker Surfing With Dolphins Wednesday May 12, 2021 Staff
Dylan Graves has surfed a lot of waves in his life. Good waves, bad waves, and everything in between. If it’s a moving lump of water, Graves is into it, no matter how it’s created. Man made, ocean made, river made, whatever it is, he’ll surf it. That’s why Vans picked him up for the
Weird Waves series, where he surfs you guessed it weird waves. But none of those waves, perhaps, are weirder than the time Dylan Graves went tanker surfing with dolphins.
The weird waves market is cornered by a few souls. Ben Gravy, of course, buy Jamie O’Brien and Graves, too. Weird Waves is a great show in a sea of other not-so-great shows on YouTube. It has production value, a good host, and interesting subject matter. Tanker surfers are a funny little niche of surfers who, as their name implies, chase tankers around the ocean and surf the wake they produce. Since tankers are so large and
Good News: Weird Waves Returns!
Season 3 premieres with same star (Dylan Graves), new weirdness (Nightriders)
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For the highly anticipated third season of Vans’
Weird Waves, Dylan Graves, Dave Malcolm and crew decided to focus on weirdness closer to home: Galveston, Tahoe, etc., you know, with the pandemic still being a thing and all. But the spirit is still the same. In the immortal words of Hunter S. Thompson:
It never got weird enough for me. This first episode probes bioluminescence, blue moonlight and manmade lighting devices to get their point across.
Biggest Swell of the Season Kisses the Caribbean
Tres Palmas takes center stage, assorted shallow reefbreaks provide encores.
Mikey Wright. Photo: Darren Muschett
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Puerto Rico has always existed on the fringe of American society. Not a state although many argue it should be the Connecticut-sized tropical island is an outlier. A commonwealth. A territory. But when, say, the biggest NNW swell of the season stampedes toward the Greater Antilles all juiced up by 50-foot seas and 65-knot winds, Puerto Rico becomes the boss dog of the boneyard. The Hawaii of the Atlantic. The best thing American surfing’s got going this side of Death Valley. (And the likely destination where the O’Neill Regional Wave of the Winter: Caribbean could be won. More info.)