{"id":6267,"date":"2009-03-09T20:48:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T03:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2009-03-09T20:54:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T03:54:50","slug":"project-save-our-surf-celebrity-surf-o-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6267","title":{"rendered":"Project Save Our Surf Celebrity Surf-O-Thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/banner-largejpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/banner-largejpg.jpeg','popup','width=960,height=265,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\/2009\/03\/banner-large-tm.jpg\" height=\"118\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Banner Large.Jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surf legend <strong>Shaun Tomson<\/strong> and actress <strong>Tanna Frederick<\/strong> (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/surfermag.com\/features\/onlineexclusives\/project_sos_aims_to_raise_awareness\/\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed here by Scott Bass<\/a><\/strong>) have launched a new fund raising organization &#8220;that campaigns globally to protect and restore the world&#8217;s oceans.&#8221; It&#8217;s called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectsaveoursurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project SOS<\/a><\/strong>, not to be confused with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectsos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project SOS<\/a><\/strong> (Strengthening Our Students) or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-sos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project SOS<\/a><\/strong> (Support our soldiers) or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vermeer.org\/articles.php?req=read&amp;article_id=17\" target=\"_blank\">Project SOS<\/a><\/strong> (Support Open Source) or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sosoutreach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SOS<\/a><\/strong> (snowboard outreach society)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Project SOS is collaborating with a number of generous local and national sponsors including <strong>ZJ Boardinghouse<\/strong>, <strong>Quiksilver<\/strong>, <strong>Rocker Board Shop<\/strong>, <strong>Kreation Caf\u00e9<\/strong>, <strong>Charlie Palmer Restaurants<\/strong> and <strong>Natural Surf Technique<\/strong>. . . Surf participants will raise money by asking people to sponsor their commitment to surf non-stop during a five-hour shift. . . The event will be followed by a Gala with a live band, auction, cocktails, tapas, buffet dinner, a performance by <strong>Tom Curren<\/strong> and a celebrity \u201cblue\u201d carpet befitting Oceana. . . Celebrities Surfing the event include <strong>Michelle Rodriguez<\/strong> (\u201dLost\u201d), <strong>David Chokachi<\/strong> (\u201cBaywatch\u201d) and World Champion of International Professional Surfing <strong>Peter \u201cP.T.\u201d Townend<\/strong> under Project SOS Surf Captain <strong>Frank Caronna<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The surf event is Sunday April 5, 2009 from 10 AM to 3 PM with a celebrity Gala event is Sunday night from 6 PM to 10 PM at Shuters on the Beach Ballroom in Santa Monica, California. Sounds like a great party for a good cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectsaveoursurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Save Our Surf<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monstersandcritics.com\/people\/news\/article_1463689.php\/Tanna_Frederick_and_surfer_Shaun_Tomson_host_Surfathon_April_5\" target=\"_blank\">M&#38;C<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surf legend Shaun Tomson and actress Tanna Frederick (interviewed here by Scott Bass) have launched a new fund raising organization &#8220;that campaigns globally to protect and restore the world&#8217;s oceans.&#8221; It&#8217;s called Project SOS, not to be confused with Project SOS (Strengthening Our Students) or Project SOS (Support our soldiers) or Project SOS (Support Open [&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\/6267"}],"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=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}