Surfrider's Chad Nelsen and Surfers Against Sewage's Andy Cummins co-present on surf protection at the International Coastal Symposium at Plymouth University, UK. April
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International Coastal Symposium 2013 SAS & Surfrider
1. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Paradise Lost: Threatened Waves &
Strategies For Global Wave Protection
By Andy Cummins &
Chad Nelsen
3. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
• How Surfing Has Evolved
• Threats To Surfing Waves
• Reactive Case Study: North American Wave Under
Threat, Surfrider Foundation
• Proactive Case Study: Adapting Current Legislation
To Better Protect Surfing Waves Or Creating New
Law Protection Legislation
4. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
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5. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
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6. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
• 6 X English
titles
• 2 X British
titles
• 2 X European
titles
Paul Russell, Professor of Oceanography at the University of Plymouth, world
authority on beach studies, ICS 2013 Steering Group member & Scientific Board
member
7. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
A Reactive Campaign To Protect
Trestles, California.
By Chad Nelsen
14. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
“[I]t would be difficult to imagine a more environmentally
damaging alternative location for the proposed toll road and
one which would be more clearly inconsistent with the
environmentally sensitive habitat resource protection
requirements contained within Coastal Act Section 30240.”
“No measures exist that would enable the proposed
alignment to be found consistent with the Coastal Act.”
California Coastal Act
16. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Major impacts to a sensitive & highly used natural area
Not consistent with the California Coastal Act.
Inconsistent with other state and federal laws?
Massive public response was the difference
Toll road project rejected by the CA Coastal Commission & US
Department of Commerce
The threat isn’t over
Conclusions
17. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Waves Under Threat Globally
Australia
UK
Chile
Ireland
Colombia
America
Mexico
South Africa
New Zealand
The Azores
18. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Waves Damaged Globally
Chile
Madeira
Ecuador
Spain
New Zealand
19. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Waves Destroyed Around The World
America
Brazil
Portugal
Mexico
Maldives
UK
20. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Under Threat From Development
21. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Under Threat From Restricted Access
22. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Under Threat From Pollution
23. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Under Threat From Radioactive Waste
24. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Proactive Case Study: Adapting Current
Legislation To Better Protect Surfing Waves Or
Creating New Law Protection Legislation.
By Andy Cummins
26. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Protect Our Waves Petition.
Inappropriate coastal development.
Restriction on raw sewage discharges via CSOs
Management systems in place to tackle marine
litter
Secure water users rights to sustainably access
the coast
27. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Raise awareness across the surfing community
about the array of threats facing our coastline.
Raise awareness amongst developers & polluters
about the value of waves and the surfing
community
Raise awareness amongst legislators about the
economic, social, cultural and environmental value
of waves
28. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
The petition calls on Parliament to
debate the economic and intrinsic
value of UK surfing waves and
beaches, and produce specific
legislation to protect these unique,
finite assets for this and future
generations.
29. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Marine & Coastal Access Act 2009
Revised Bathing Water Directive and/or
the Marine Strategy Framework
Directive
Clean Neighbourhood & Environment
Act 2005
Amend Current Legislation
30. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Legislation could be created to
specifically protect surfing waves and
the dynamics needed to protect surfing
waves from inappropriate development,
surfers sustainable access to the coast
and the ensure the waters around
recreational water sports zones are
impacted by pollution.
Create New Legislation
31. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Summary
• Threats are numerous, varied and usually backed by well resourced institutions.
• Currently the onus is on NGOs to recognise threats and effectively defend the
wave/represent the surfing community.
• Amending current legislation or creating new legislation would protect waves
around the entire UK.
Boscombe’ s artificial
surfing reef £3 million.
Is Broad Bench worth over
£10 million, £100 million?
32. SAS Campaign Director, Andy Cummins &
Surfrider Environmental Director Chad
Nelsen
Thanks for listening.
Any questions?
Notas do Editor
For the next 15 minutes when Chad and I refer to waves we are talking about surfing waves and dynamics needed to produce surfing waves - such as wave height and period; swell direction and distance travelled; peel angle; wind speed and direction and bathymetry/geographical features. These are all found within the swell corridor and the coast where the waves break.
Although surfing was historically the sport of kings, it’s had a rebrand
Around once a decade Hollywood has defaced the sport of surfing. Surfers are often cast as on the fringes of society, often criminals.
In the 21st centaury surfers cover a diverse range of society. Doctors, lawyers and media professionals mix with teachers, builders and students without the social restrains that might normally keep these groups apart. Surfing is a valuable market globally worth
At page 3 of the Executive Summary & at p. 10
During what the media called the “Woodstock of the surf movement,” you could feel, “the energy in the air-a booming resonance of civic duty,” said Stefanie Sekich, Surfrieder’s Save Trestles Campaign Coordinator. “Seeing thousands of people come together in an orderly, positive fashion made me feel hopeful for the future.”
Surfrider’s Save Trestles campaign is a great example of a how much effort is needed to currently protect a high value wave. At the last Global Wave Conference one of Chad’s colleagues made the point that a wave is never saved, it’s always being saved. This leaves an unfair burden on groups like Surfers Against Sewage and the Surfrider Foundation. Globally, these countries have a number of waves are under threat to varying degrees of impacts.
Global these countries are home to waves that have already been damaged but not yet destroyed.
Unfortunately,waves have been destroyed and communities around these valuable assets have suffered because they were not protected from inappropriate developments or pollution.
In the UK, developers already have to go through an expensive and time-consuming process to get planning permission, and this includes conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). If there were effective laws stating that surfing waves cannot be interfered with or destroyed, it would be in the developers' own interest to avoid putting their concrete in the wrong place. RAMPION 22% reduction Impacts identified as high. Mitigation “consultation with stakeholder groups”. Divers were granted protection on good diving days by limiting installation activities. The artificial reef is in the shadow of this development. Limited understanding of what makes a good surfing wave, the benefits of surfing (both socially and economically) and the size of the surfing community.Harbor development, Freshwater Bay, Oyster Devices at Marwick, offshore wind at Brighton and Bournemouth and the IoW. With a greater recognition of the surfing waves developers would start their projects looking to have minimum impact (Rampion, Rochdale envelope approach, it won’t look like this so it would be irresponsible to object Vs if it won’t look like this why have it within the Rochdale envelope (turbine size, distance from shore and space between the turbines. Dredging in Cornwall will produce 100 new jobs. Vs 1,600 full time year round jobs surfing provides Cornwall as well as £64 million pounds annually. Not to mention the other impacts to tourism. However, there are concerns about putting a value on a wave, what happens when a more valuable project comes along?
The bench is closed to surfers for 228 days a year. The majority of the time it’s open coincides with seasons that do not produce waves in the area. The dredging proposal for Cornwall could have significant restrictions across some of the most popular North Cornish surfing and tourist beaches. Surfing and other water sports are valuable exercise pat times making sure the population is as fit, health and happy as possible.
These waves are all failing the 1976 bathing water directive’s water quality standards. At the minimum pass rate the chance of contracting gastro enteritis could be as high as 1 in 7, FOR A BATHER. Surfers are 3 times more likely to contract an illness than a windsurfer, and many times more likely than a bather. This is because new wetsuit technologies allow surfers to access the water all year round for prolonged periods and ingestion and immersion is an obvious risk with the sport and route of infection.
Guardian 2011:Tens of thousands of radioactive fuel fragments escaped from the Dounreay plant between 1963 and 1984, polluting local beaches, the coastline and the seabed. Fishing has been banned within a two-kilometre radius of the plant since 1997.The most radioactive of the particles are regarded by experts as potentially lethal if ingested. Similar in size to grains of sand, they can incorporate traces of plutonium-239, which has a half-life of over 24,000 years BBC NEWS: Experts believe they may have found the most radioactive particle to be recovered so far from a beach near the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness.The particle, which was found on 14 February, was the 208th to be recovered from the beach by contractors.
The threats are diverse and are often executed by powerful and extremely well resources institutions. The Protect Our Waves petition is a proactively strategic campaign aimed at a national level rather than reactively campaigning at a regional level, defending waves time and again.
The onus is on the NGO to defend natural resources and prove the ‘value’ of the wave rather than the developer to ensure their activities will not adversely impact on the surfing resource. Once a development impacts a wave it’s hard to undo.