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.

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

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.

His face smashed apart, an injured surfer struggled to shore ... and into hours of high-tech surgery.

Kiwi friends of American surfer Andy Irons have remembered him for being 'one of the boys' and for the time he gave to help boost NZ surfing.

Surfers everywhere are in shock as they battle to comprehend the death of three-time world champion Andy Irons.

Police are investigating whether the death of three-time world surfing champion Andy Irons may have been caused by an overdose of methadone, according to a report.

Three-time world surfing champion Andy Irons has died of dengue fever at age 32.

Photos of Andy Irons through the years.

New Zealander Paige Hareb has finished second at the world surfing games in Peru.

Aussie surfer Mitch Coleborn faces up to six months in jail after allegedly exposing his genitals to a group of children.