{"id":3535,"date":"2008-12-24T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2008-12-24T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T18:30:19","slug":"surfers-drinking-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3535","title":{"rendered":"Surfers Drinking The Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ocean-star-fish-water-glass-1103455066.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ocean-star-fish-water-glass-1103455066.jpg','popup','width=272,height=454,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ocean-star-fish-water-glass-1103455066-tm.jpg\" height=\"166\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ocean-Star-Fish-Water-Glass 1103455066\" \/><\/a>According to a new study released by <strong>Oregon State University<\/strong> surfers &#8220;unintentionally ingest 10 times more water than swimmers or divers, putting them at higher risk of contracting gastrointestinal illnesses when surfing in contaminated waters.&#8221; Having experience &#8220;shit-mouth&#8221; while surfing dirty third-world river mouths we believe it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The results of this Sea Grant study could be useful to public health and environmental officials responsible for beach sampling and advisory thresholds. . . . \u201cOn beaches popular with surfers, for example, officials might want to consider lowering the advisory threshold because surfers ingest higher doses of water than swimmers,\u201d said Anna Harding, a professor in the OSU Department of Public Health who collaborated with Stone on the study.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would be a start. How about lowering the amount of pollution that gets into the ocean in the first place? Until then we&#8217;re following the advice of our old social drinking coach: swallow less, spit more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kval.com\/sports\/local\/36662629.html\" target=\"_blank\">KVAL.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study released by Oregon State University surfers &#8220;unintentionally ingest 10 times more water than swimmers or divers, putting them at higher risk of contracting gastrointestinal illnesses when surfing in contaminated waters.&#8221; Having experience &#8220;shit-mouth&#8221; while surfing dirty third-world river mouths we believe it. The results of this Sea Grant study could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}