Top New Zealand surfer Paige Hareb's first round win at the world surfing games in Panama has come at a cost.

Kiwi surfer Sarah Mason won the ASP girls pro junior France final over Australian Dimity Stoyle at Les Bourdaines at the weekend.

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.

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

A group of Californian surfers have discovered a new wave: off an iceberg in the Antarctic.

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.