Save The Waves and Mavericks™ celebrate International Surfing Day on Saturday, June 20th with a beach cleanup and Surfonomics survey mission of the beachgoing public

 

This past Saturday Save The Waves volunteers with the help of Mavericks Surf Ventures got dirty on the beach at Mavericks to celebrate surfing and pristine coastlines, cleaning the beach with our friends and supporters and gathering surveys for the Value of Mavericks Surfonomics study.

On the beach we learned a lot about trash and where it comes from: look closely at the high tide line and you will find the infamous "mermaid's tears" - which we found at Mavericks (see above photo) - hundreds and even thousands of tiny pieces of plastic and styrofoam trash that has broken down into pieces and washed onto the beach with the high tide. You can locate the high tide line at any beach, look closely, and you will find this tiny plastic trash that endangers marine life and litters every beach worldwide.

Thousands of waveriders all over the world celebrated International Surfing Day, and we joined this international effort at Pillar Point in front of world famous Mavericks, cleaning the beach and deploying our "Value of Mavericks" study survey of the public beachgoers which will be used to study the value of the wave and its beach and what it brings to the community.