LiQUiFY Magazine December 2013 | Page 79

A boiling broth of fibreglass, aluminium and human beings - no this isn’t a high school science experiment or a Mary Shelly novel - it’s Currumbin Alley on any given summer Saturday. The shifting sands and shallow entrance combined with the ever increasing numbers of swimmers, surfcraft and powered vessels make this place one of the most lethal stretches of shoreline waterway in the country - a perfect point break and a protected boating entrance, right on top of each other. Despite the tragic loss of surfer Richard King to a collision in May 2011, it still remains an accident just waiting to surface once more - that is for now at least. So just what is being done? FROTH takes a deeper look at the new campaign pushing to bring about much needed change, that might just be the difference between life and death.