The intro to the best surf film of '14 has been uploaded to the 'net for your enjoyment

The best kind of data mining is yet to be exploited.

They're two of Margaret River’s most respected and influential shapers who’ve fulfilled the requirements of more local surfers than anyone. So if Al Bean and Marty Littlewood don’t have a problem with shaping machines, perhaps you shouldn’t either.

The waiting period of the Pipe Masters has begun and the spotlight has intensified on the world's most famous wave. 

Matt Dunbar rattled off these shots on the first day of the waiting period.

For the most part surfers are absent in Found At Sea. Where a surfer is in frame they're either a reference point for scale or they're subsumed within the scene. In Ray's world the surfer must share equal billing with the wave, the sky, the light...

"There are six-dozen chambers of death between here and another Masters victory for Slater. He will need to bend or break a few laws physics to make it happen. More is required now, at age 42, than at any other time in his career."