This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in this edition.

I've met some of the greatest people that would have never been in my life without this crazy little

sport we're doing.

The dogs catching waves with their humans.

There were two little boys no older than six or seven years stood either side of the road and they

saluted the team when they went through and it'll stick with me forever.

The British rescue teams revisiting Morocco a year on from the devastating earthquake and could

we soon have healthy chocolate?

Over the past couple of weeks we've been treated to an array of sports through the Olympic and Paralympic games

but here's one you might not have heard of before. Dog surfing.

The World Dog Surfing Championships happened earlier this year in California

and attracted a crowd of thousands.

Two people that took part were James Wall and his dog Faith and David Fasoli

with his dog Eza. The happy-pods Holly Gibbs spoke to them and started by asking them how they got into the sport.

You guys can't see me but I actually have one hand and I was doing some inner peace

worked in in Santa Cruz, California and I was just a puppy at the time and she learned the waves and then we got her in the pool and then I had a board and it just became one with us.

And how about you, James?

I lost my previous dog, a cocker spaniel and then I got a new dog.

And with that dog I always said, hey, I'm going to do better with this dog than I did the last.

So I saw on TV dog surfing and thought, right that sounds like a crazy idea but let's do it so we started out with Raven and she didn't do too well but then I had adopted faith I found her in a parking garage and decided to give her a better life and then decided that

hey let's give faith a try see if she enjoys a surfing thing and basically ever since then we've been hooked and it's just awesome because she was a rescue dog that was fearful of the world and dog surfing got her more open, friendly and trusting with everything and it built a bigger bond with her and I and we haven't looked

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