Dirty Business

​It’s taken too long but finally got around to watching ‘Dirty Business’ On Channel Four. It’s life nowadays that Social Media and TV is full of so much content we flick from one pointless drama to another. But not this one and i wanted to wait until I really had time to sit and watch this one properly, not just consume it like a bag of crisps and move onto the next one.

As a surfer I should do more, a lot more. I surf and swim in the ocean whenever possible and yet don’t do anything to help, all bar the odd beach clean and ‘pick up three’ and the odd blog rant in the past. This docudrama is shocking. I moan about the water companies doing nothing and paying out fat dividends to shareholders whilst shit still flows into the ocean, and yet the Environment Agency do nothing!

When I listened to Matt Barr and Chris Hines on discussing this drama on ‘We look Sideways Podcast’, they call us out. Why don’t more surfers do more, or anything come to that? It actually made me feel quite ashamed of myself. This was me, they were talking directly to me, and I have no excuse. Maybe living in Sennen, I’m spoilt, entitled, and because we have crystal clear water here, it feel like it doesn’t affect me as much as friends up the line, maybe I’m just selfish, when I do really care. So why don’t more surfers do more? Why are we reluctant to get involved and campaign like Chris and Matt, or Hugo Tagholm from Oceana. I am 100% amongst those surfers who enjoy a cleaner ocean thanks to others campaigning and must do so much more to help make a difference and I’m not alone. Maybe through my little blog and could reach a few more people to spread the word. It’s not just us surfers and swimmers, it’s people who fish the rivers and canals like my brother and nephew Reggie Pierre, who like his dad is becoming a great match fisherman.  Maybe when I see them on Bank Holiday,  I can ask Reggie to begin thinking about this stuff now at an early age maybe he can ask his friends too. I’m going to start shouting more. Chris Hines has been shouting for some thirty plus years. Time for us to join in, time for me to join in. ​