How The Body Glove Nautilus Lifeline Works
Because no one plans on getting lost, carrying a Body Glove Lifeline while participating in open ocean sports can save your life! Featuring a Green button for talking with your buds, an Orange button to call for help on the international Hail and Distress Channel (CH. 16) and a RED BUTTON that increases the transmission range and sends alert message with GPS position (up to 30 miles on International Distress Channel 70) AND turns on the Lifeline strobe! (View Larger Image for details) If you’re an AVID SUP’er you NEED a Body Glove Lifeline!

Get your Body Glove Nautilus Lifeline here: http://www.thesurfboardwarehouse.com/p-1653-body-glove-nautilus-lifeline-br-marine-radio-with-gps.aspx

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For over a decade, Dave Wassel has been in an elite group of big wave surfers. The last three years, Dave has been invited to the In Memory of Eddie Aikau. Last year, Dave Wassel made the cover of both Surfer Magazine and Surfing Magazine for riding a giant swell at Tavarua. Also last year Dave won the Monster Paddle Award in the XXL Big Wave Awards for a 53 foot wave at Jaws.

More recently Wassel was invited to the Mavericks Invitational and will be competing in the Volcom Pipe Pro. Wassel has a Wave of the Winter entry for a ride at Backdoor that can be viewed on Surfline.com. Also keep your eye out for the new TransWorld Surf video, featuring several athletes, one of them of course being Dave Wassel.

Body Glove team rider Alex Gray said, “Dave Wassel fits Body Glove like a glove. From big wave surfing, diving, and hunting, Wassel’s footprints are always the most recognizable. Not to mention he is one of the funniest humans on the planet. Body Glove couldn’t have added a better waterman to excel an already stellar team. Can’t wait to get crazy with the man from Kailua shorebreak.”

Q & A with Dave Wassel

BG: What is your most memorable big wave moment?
DW: Most memorable sesh was with Healey outer reef. It was 40-50 feet spitting left tubes. No cameras, just us out there.

BG: What is your most memorable free diving moment?
DW: I qualified for the Inter Pacific spear fishing competition in 2009. I had to beat out all the teams from the US Mainland and Hawaii for that.

BG: Who are your surf mentors?
DW: My mentors are the North Shore pioneers Roger Erickson, Jose Angel, and Butch Van Artsdalen.

BG: How long have you been a North Shore lifeguard?
DW: Been a North Shore lifeguard for 8 years.

BG: Who are your other sponsors?
DW: My other sponsors are Volcom, WRC, Electric Visual, Creatures of Leisure, Leileis Bar and Grill, Matthews Bowns, and Western Lanai Adventures.

BG: What does it mean to be a part of the Body Glove team?
DW: Being a part of the Body Glove team is a perfect fit. Like a hand and a glove, like peanut butter and jelly.

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The legendary alliance of Body Glove and Jean-Michel Cousteau brings together the 60 year old iconic international water brand created by twin brothers Bob and Bill Meistrell with the world renowned ocean explorer, filmmaker, television personality, and environmentalist whose family’s ocean adventures have captivated global audiences for 60 years. Together Body Glove and Jean-Michel Cousteau are committed to provide the finest products with some of the proceeds of the sales going to preserve and protect the oceans through Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society.

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For those of you not familiar with the story, Morgan the Orca was captured on June 23, 2010 by the Dolphinarium Harderwijk off the north coast of the Netherlands—a rare event since no orcas have been sighted in the area since 1947. Morgan was severely underweight and in poor health. Her rescue was allowed only under the pretense that she would be rehabilitated and then returned to her native waters in the North Atlantic. A plan for Morgan’s release had been proposed which composed of a slow and monitored reintroduction back to her habitat. However, in November 2011, the Dutch authorities decided that Morgan should be transported to the Canary Islands instead of implementing any attempt for release.

Fast forward almost one year. Morgan has been languishing in Loro Parque a privately-owned entertainment park in Tenerife, Canary Islands. She is used in shows and is abused by the other orca at the park.

Many people ask, ‘Why this ONE orca?’ This is a good question. Morgan represents a new bloodline for the captive orca trade. Laws have been in place to forbid the capture of wild orcas since the early 70’s in the United States and have slowly extended to other regions around the world. Russia and Japan still hope to capture orcas from the wild but the reality of the situation is the entire population of killer whales in captivity has been dependent on breeding through their own shrinking gene pool. Morgan represents the rebirth of captive orca lineage. A new branch on their fading and obsolete family tree. She represents MANY unborn orca who will be doomed to be born in, train in, ‘entertain in’, and die in captivity. The time has come to view captivity of whales and dolphins as a part of our history – not a tragic part of our future.

This court case on November 1 will be held before three Judges in Amsterdam. They will be investigating the previous ruling made to allow Morgan’s transfer to Loro Parque in the Canary Islands, and will also look at the legality of keeping Morgan in captivity.

As stated previously, Morgan was captured on a rehabilitation and release permit and clearly she has not beenreleased. Instead, she was put on display by the Dolfinarium Harderwijk in the Netherlands, something for which they did not have a permit. The Dolfinarium Harderwijk have violated their permit, and Morgan’s transport permit has been violated by Loro Parque.

Morgan’s future hangs in the balance at this court hearing. Ingrid refuses to take no for an answer. The Free Morgan Group refuses to take no for an answer. I refuse to take no for an answer. And most importantly, YOU should refuse take no for an answer! There is greatness in numbers.

Ingrid and I, along with many orca experts will be at the court case in Amsterdam on November 1 in a show of solidarity for Morgan! I invite you to join us. If you can travel to Amsterdam please visit here for information. If you can not join us in person at the court case, please be there in spirit and add your voice to our petition! I will personally bring the list of names gathered on our website.

I know there are many issues competing for our attention now, but there are only moments until Morgan’s court case. The countdown to the determination of her fate is ticking. The time is NOW to act. - Jean-Michel Cousteau

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A percentage of the sale of each Jean-Michel Cousteau Body Glove wetsuit and other products will go to preserve and protect the oceans through the vital work of Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society.

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