• Posts Tagged 'Kimmeridge bay'

19.10.09 - Campaigns, Clean and Offshore Energy, Climate Chaos, News, Protect Our Waves, Threats To Watersports

Slater Signs SAS’s 1,000th POW Campaign Postcard

Kelly Slater, 9 times Surfing World Champion, and widely recognised as the greatest surfer ever, supports Surfers Against Sewage's (SAS) Protect Our Waves campaign (POW). Slater signed the 1,000th POW campaign postcard and today SAS will send Slater's card to the Secretary of State for Defence (SoS). SAS's 1,000 POW postcards call on the SoS to review the Ministry of Defence surfing ban at Broad Bench, one of the UK's premier waves. Broad Bench falls on the outer boundary of a Ministry of Defence firing range and surfing can be prohibited whilst the MoD are using the range. SAS understands that... Read more

12.06.09 - Campaigns, Climate Chaos, Education, News, Protect Our Waves, Threats To Watersports, Water Users Access

The Gathering – A Protect Our Waves Action

Surfers Against Sewage's (SAS) new campaign Protect Our Waves (POW) is having its first action, The Gathering, and we need you to get involved! Simply turn up to Kimmeridge Bay with your wetsuit and board at 10am on Saturday the 20th of June, International Surfing Day and show the MoD how important waves are to surfers and waveriders. This is your chance to be an active part of a solution-based campaign protecting waves. The Gathering will be a mass paddle out at Kimmeridge to demonstrate how significant and passionate the UK's surfing and wave-riding communities are, not least local Bournemouth and... Read more