In The Future, We Could All Be Surfing In Hazmat Suits

August 11, 2015
Los Angeles

Think of Los Angeles traveller hotspot Venice Beach and certain sun-splashed images group to mind: jacked-up physique builders, bikini-clad drum bladers, drum circles, hula hoops, swell symbol rings and henna tattoos. HAZMAT suits, though? Not so much… yet.

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The array was desirous by a new vacation, when Dyrland’s dreams of surfing were squashed by high levels of pollutants in a water. “I went down in Los Angeles in Oct of 2014 to take some rendezvous photos for a friend,” he explained to The Huffington Post. “I was unequivocally looking brazen to this outing since we wanted to try my palm during surfing.”

One night it rained, hard, though being from Washington, Dyrland didn’t bat an eye. “When we woke adult a following morning we asked my friends when we could go out and surf. They said, ‘Are we crazy? No one goes in a H2O after it rains, we could get MRSA, Hep C, respiratory infection …’ Â I was shocked.”

Because Los Angeles gets so small rain, when it happens, all of a city’s sewage and rubbish runs down a travel and into a ocean. “During a standard sleet charge as most as 10 billion gallons of sleet runoff goes into a ocean,” Dyrland said.

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“After a print fire was over, we kept meditative about not being means to go surfing. Not being means to go into a H2O for 3 days was crazy and as a photographer we wanted to try and move recognition to this emanate in a artistic and visible print series.”

Thus “HAZMAT Surfing” was born.Â

“My idea with all of this is to lift recognition surrounding a dwindling H2O peculiarity of a oceans. we wish by formulating some-more shoots and putting it out there, some-more people, companies and communities might wish to burst on house with my plan and widespread a word to take a subsequent stairs towards improving sea pollution.Â A review needs to start and we have to start somewhere.”

Â Dyrland hopes to continue his array during opposite beaches in a United States and around a world. He’s now creation skeleton for his subsequent print fire exploring H2O peculiarity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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