Serge Dedina

Serge Dedina is the author of "Saving the Gray Whale" (Tucson: University of Arizona Press) and an environmental activist from Imperial Beach, California. A contributing author for the Voice of San Diego, he has published articles on the environment in the Los Angeles Times, California Coast and Ocean, Surfer's Journal, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He wrote a groundbreaking oral history of big-wave surfing in California: Watermen: Tales of the Tijuana Sloughs, published in Longboarder in 1994. Serge received the Surf Industry Association's "Environmentalist of the Year" Award in 2003 for his role in protecting the surf break of the Californias. He is currently the Executive Director of the Wildcoast international conservation team.