StandUP Paddle Planet

Sadly this morning the Seal Beach and Surfside surfing communities are coming to learn that one of their own, surfer/shaper/paddler/all-around good-human Steve Adler has passed. While details of his untimely departure are still forthcoming, the impact that the 41-year-old Surfside local had on people in his brief time with us is evident. Adler, a career surfboard builder, shared a shaping ...

Stings in Seal Beach, known as 'Ray Bay,' nearly doubled since 2006.

Seal Beach lifeguards treated nearly 500 victims of stingray hits last year, the largest amount in a decade and making up about a third of the nation’s estimates of stingray treatments. Seal Beach lifeguard captain Joe Bailey gave a report to the city this week, as inquiries of why the number has increased have come to his office. The 2008 number is nearly double of that of 2006, when there were only 265 people hit by the ocean-dwelling creatures. In the report, Bailey said there were abo