(1) Surf Icon Rob Machado catches a waive at Santa Monica Beach during Project Save Our Surf's (Project SOS) Inaugural Surf-a-thon on Sunday, April 5, 2009. All Proceeds from the Surf-a-thon benefits OCEANA,a non-profitinternational ocean conservation group. (2) Raymond Koehler, 40, competitive tandem surfer, carries Tammy Mowery, 36, during the Surf-a-thon. (3) Surf legend Peter "PT" Townendsurfs duringthe celebrity surfing exhibition. (4) Judges score the surfers during the Surf-a-thon. (5) Celebrity surfers pose for a portrait before giving a surfing exhibition at Santa Monica Beach during the Inaugural fundraise.
OCEANA, is a non-profit organization that campaigns globally to protect and restore the world's oceans. Oceana seeks to make our oceans as rich, healthy and abundant as they were in the past. They look to a future in which dolphin sightings are common along any temperate coast; swordfish, marlin and tuna are abundant once again; whales and sea turtles thrive; cod are plentiful on both sides of the Atlantic; local fishing cultures evolve rather then decline and in which fish are a safe, growing and plentiful source of food around the world.