MAGAZINE

More book than magazine. A reader-supported surf publication founded in 1992, The Surfer’s Journal is a vivid, authoritative, and independent document that delivers purist surf energy in each bimonthly edition.

Issue 33.5 features:

On the Cover: J Riddle, on location in El Salvador, earning stunt rates via period-correct positioning and equipage during the filming of John Milius’ Big Wednesday. For more on the writer/director’s filmography and impact on wider pop culture, read “Child of the Bomb” on page 70. Photograph by Merkel/Lost & Found.

In this issue, we also open a South Oz shooter’s catalog, dive for bluewater gold in the California Bight, glean wisdom from a revered surfing elder, conduct recon in the Eastern Mediterranean, and more. For the full 140-page experience, pick up a copy of TSJ 33.5.