Australian writer and surf media mainstay, Sean Doherty, has become the unintentional tip of the spear in a public fight against a large Norwegian oil company who has a proposal to drill in the ocean

off the south coast of Australia. Sean has worked in editorial and writing roles for surfing life,

surfing, surfer, and he launched his career at tracks in 1996. He's authored the books

MP The Life of Michael Peterson, the follow-up MP Untold,

as well as My Brother's Keeper, the official Braboy story. As a producer on the 40-minute

Patagonia film, Nevertown, he documented one small town's fight to preserve their land and

coastline against offshore drilling in the Great Australian

Bight. You can watch that film on surf splendor podcast.com. Spoiler alert, the townspeople

temporarily won that battle. The film was Sean's education to this oil drilling lease originally

held by BP. When Sean made that film, and even up until two weeks ago, he did not

expect to be the point person for public education and information dissemination for this new fight

against Norwegian oil company, Equinor. I'll let him detail how exactly that happened and what his

precise position is. We'll do all of that for the first

30 minutes of this discussion and then we spend the next hour discussing the ever-evolving

and perhaps seemingly diminishing value of what we view as traditional surf media. That is,

print surf photography and print surf writing, the mediums that Sean has worked in

for the past 23 years. He illuminates what those things mean now and the adjustments that will be

required for those things to thrive in the future. My name is David Scales for Surf Splendor. I hope

that you enjoy my conversation with Sean Doherty. I'm Good

With my astern

Good to have you here Dave

Thank you

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