Fight For The Bight

Today was the Fight For The Bight demonstration where a large group of surfers paddled out into the ocean and formed a large circle to protest a Norwegian oil company called Equinor who want to create a deep-sea drilling operation in the Great Australian Bight off the coast of South Australia.

Went down down to Manly Beaches South Steyne and took some video of the event, also at the end of the video some bonus footage of an electric hydrofoil surf boarder.

Some information about the Fight for The Bight campaign :

“The Bight supports wild fisheries and aquaculture ventures worth around $440 million for each annum (2012–13) and travel industry enterprises worth around $1.2 billion for every annum (2013–14).

Flanked by the Nullarbor and the longest ceaseless ocean precipices on the planet, the Bight is a safe house for whales, fish, feathered creatures, marine warm blooded creatures, plants life and a variety of invertebrate environments.

The territory has nutrient upwellings which give basic environment to innumerable species including a portion of the final settlements of jeopardized Australian ocean lions.

Researchers gauge around 85% of the species that live in the Great Australian Bight are discovered no place else on Earth.

What befalls the earth of the Bight influences the assorted variety of the marine world on a worldwide scale.

The dangers presented by opening the Bight to oil investigation are unsatisfactory. Not exclusively is there potential for a cataclysmic oil slick, the ineffectively comprehended impacts of seismic testing, strike hazard and commotion contamination from penetrating and vessel traffic, and expanded contamination can possibly in a general sense upset this one of a kind marine condition.”