PHOTOS - Here are some recent pictures sent to us from our field team in Chile.  Check back regularly for the most current photo updates on our relief efforts. (Scroll down for video)

STW relief team distributes initial supplies. Photo: Philip Muller

  

Houses and businesses in Llico affected by eathquake and tsunami. Photos: Philip Muller

STW surf ambassador, Roman Navarro, explains how to assemble and use the water filters. Photo: Philip Muller

Now this family can purify thier own water- clean for drinking. Photo: Philip Muller

 

Families must build temporary camps due to damaged infrastructure. Photos: Philip Muller

 

Billabong’s Chris Evans and professional surfers Hans Hagen and Greg Long pack gear for Greg’s relief mission to Chile. Photo: Geoff Ragatz

 

Total destruction along the coast in Chile’s Region VII. Photo: Tomás Munita

The military has set up in many areas to provide security and to help with relief efforts. Photo: Philip Muller

Professional surfers Kohl Christensen and Greg Long help locals build water filter systems in Llico, Chile. Photo: Philip Muller

STW Environmental Director, Josh Berry (right), with relief team in Curanipe.

 

  Much of Chile has suffered destruction.  Photos: Josh Berry

STW surf ambassador, Greg Long, shows how water filters work in Putu, VIIth region. Photo: Philip Muller

Greg and Ramon giving out tents to people in Putu, VII th Region who lost their houses.  Photo: Philip Muller

Giving out aid, food, water, clothes, tents, to the people of Putu. They had received hardly any help until now.  Photo: Philip Muller

 

 

Clockwise: 1) The road has completely disappeared in some places on the way to Putu and Constitucion, and pieces of asphalt lie all over the place.  2) On the road towards Putu, you can see how high the water rose by seeing what it did to the road sign.  3) The coastline between Vichuquen and Putu, the road as in places completely disappeared.  4) Rodrigo Farias, director of the surfestival and one of the motors of the Save The Waves initiative in Pichilemu, here in front of a house in Vichuquen, VIth Region.  Photos: Philip Muller

A man on the outside of Putu in front of what was his old house which will have to be demolished.  Photo: Philip Muller

A woman in Licanten VIIth Region, evacuating her stuff from her house due to possible collapse, most houses have those signs painted on the walls which means they have been marked for demolition. Photo: Philip Muller

Greg and Kohl gave over 20 filters to the director of Firemen of Licanten VIIth Region after showing him and crew how to install them, he looks over 5 communities of over 150 people, so he will be placing those filters all around Licanten. Photo: Philip Muller

 

VIDEO -

Metallica gives a shout out to Save The Waves' Chile relief efforts, and a show of support for the Chilean people, while on tour in South America:

http://www.youtube.com/savethewaves#p/f/1/7ikpeWLjbJ4

Professional surfers Ramon Navarro, Greg Long and Kohl Cristensen, on a Save The Waves led relief mission, deliver desperately-needed relief supplies to towns and villages in coastal Chile, in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Chile on February 27, 2010:

http://www.youtube.com/savethewaves#p/f/6/XFn_kyMEoWc

Save The Waves led relief efforts are profiled on Chilean national television, in a story by Chilean television personality Carlos Pinto: