The Kaloko dam, on Kauai's north shore, broke in the early hours of March 14, unleashing a 20-foot-high wave of water that swept away seven people — including a 2-year-old boy — while they slept.
A 41-square-mile shelf of floating ice that jutted into the Arctic Ocean for 3,000 years from Canada's northernmost shore broke away in the summer of 2005, apparently freed by sharply warming temperatures and jostling wind and waves, scientists said.
They surfed big winter waves and lazy shore breaks.
There are no amenities but you can take a dip or body surf in the shore break.
By lunchtime, children were tossing rocks at the animal's blowhole while its limp body swayed in the shore break like so much seaweed.
I half-buried my car key in the sand, marked the spot with a piece of driftwood, waxed my board and walked into the shore break.
He changes into his wetsuit, studying the surf from the low, dramatic angle of the left-shoulder shore break, then begins his series of stretches.
But, for Hawaiian kids like them, Waimea, and the other great North Shore breaks, lay ahead, each a question, a type of final exam.
"That incline has become much more gradual now, so we don't have this big heavy shore break that we used to have at high tide.
Still, I resented the horde whose spidery silhouettes I could barely see, gliding and thrashing in the glare beyond the shore break, as I prepared to paddle out.
The wave at the Davises' main surf spot is not slow and forgiving like those of the better-known spots; it is a fast-moving, sometimes hollow shore break.
