Since the release of the movie Endless summer, in 1966, surfers were constantly trying to find the perfect wave. At that time they were nicknamed “Wave Chasers”. Although only a few enjoy this unique lifestyle, today there are 680,000 practitioners in France. Since 2021, surfing has even become an Olympic sport. This shows how much the discipline has evolved.
But now the waves are overcrowded and, much to the dismay of surfers, they don’t multiply endlessly. Sometimes they even disappear, as happened in Mundaka, Spain. A sandbar at the mouth of the river won this beautiful world famous left. To avoid this ecological tragedy, the Breton surfer Ervain Simon came up with the idea, thanks to his association France Hydrodiversité, to protect a thirty-hectare ocean area in Saint-Pierre-Quiberon and prevent any human being in this reserve. intervention. It…
Source: Le Figaro
