The life of surfing champ shark attack victim Bethany Hamilton is getting the big-screen treatment. She talks to Helen Barlow.

New Zealand will send an eight-strong team to the World Surfing Games in Panama.

A Nelson surfer suffered a deep puncture wound to his hand while wrestling a 2m shark during the weekend.

Susan Edmunds takes to the water with a surf school - and manages to do without Piha Rescue.

Paige Hareb, New Zealand's top woman pro-surfer has joined forces with Subaru of New Zealand in a car deal.

Surfing is an ideal sport to improve your fitness, but it can take over your life. Susan Edmunds finds out more.

Technical advances help windsurfing company chase overseas sales.

Make the most of trips to the coast and get some exercise between relaxing, writes Susan Edmunds.

One of the two men plucked from rough surf last night would have survived only minutes longer, says the firefighter who mounted the speedy jetski rescue on the Bay of Plenty coast last night.

Board shorts had arrived with surfing sometime in the 1960s and looked good, I had to admit, when the wearer was standing on water. But those of us decently immersed had no use for them.

In the 1950s, high-profile American surfers and their camera crews broadened their search for the perfect wave beyond their home beaches.