SURFING WORKSHOPS
Check out a few of our wave-riding and ocean play workshops! We partner with community-based organizations in ancestral fishing villages around the world engaging local youth through surfing to enhance programs, facilitate ocean literacy workshops, and outreach initiatives for women and girls.
BEYOND THE SURFACE
INTERNATIONAL

Challenges:
DEVELOPMENT
Globally, people are congregating along coasts and their impact will continue to rise. A gross analysis of how many people are affected by erosion/SLR has been given by theWorld ResourcesInstitute (2010). Within 25 km of the coastline live 1.4 billion people, (20% of the world population); 2.8 billion (i.e.40%)within less than 100 km in a coastal strip covering 20% of the global land surface. With SLR, damage to coastal infrastructures will invariably rise.
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Unsustainable development's impact on small-scale fisheries:
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Tourism
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Coastal Cities

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CULTURAL EROSION
Cá Ông worship is believed to have been formed a long time ago when a whale rescued villagers from a monster who was terrorizing the people. Because of the heroic act of the whale, the ancestors of the villagers started to worship the whale, using its carcass and bones in temples.
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VIDEO:
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A stop-motion animation made by a group of local kids about the reason people workshop the whales.
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Interviews with keepers of the whale temple in Mui Ne, Vang Tau, and Hue.
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Interview with Long Vu about the links between whale workshop and the conservation of marine mammals, i.e. generational gap.

GHOSTS AT "THE END OF THE WORLD"
The graveyard at the coastal headland overlooking an island (where a man they call the Sea Devil lives) is scheduled to be "demolished" to make way for more hotels and resorts. What's the impact? Who cares? Do humans still have rights after they die?

CULTURAL EROSION
Cá Ông worship is believed to have been formed a long time ago when a whale rescued villagers from a monster who was terrorizing the people. Because of the heroic act of the whale, the ancestors of the villagers started to worship the whale, using its carcass and bones in temples.
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VIDEO:
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A stop-motion animation made by a group of local kids about the reason people workshop the whales.
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Interviews with keepers of the whale temple in Mui Ne, Vang Tau, and Hue.
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Interview with Long Vu about the links between whale workshop and the conservation of marine mammals, i.e. generational gap.