Surfboard drifts 8,000km from Hawaii


Sea to sea: Falter (left) posing with his surfboard in Hawaii in 2015 and Branzuela posing with the same surfboard on Sarangani island five years later. — AFP

WHEN big wave surfer Doug Falter lost his board in a wipeout in Hawaii, his best hope was for a local fisherman to pick it up.

He never imagined that it would be found more than 8,000km away in the southern Philippines.

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