{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31333/manifest","@type":"sc:Manifest","label":"Action information on Magic Island surfing sites","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35733/full/155%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35733","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"attribution":"University of Hawaii at Manoa Digital Image Collection","related":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/show/31333","format":"text/html"},"metadata":[{"label":"Title","value":"Action information on Magic Island surfing sites"},{"label":"Subject","value":["Shore protection--Hawaii","Political participation--Hawaii","Sea-walls--Hawaii"]},{"label":"Description","value":"September 13, 1965 typed on top of first page"},{"label":"Creator","value":"Kelly, John"},{"label":"Date","value":"c. 1965"},{"label":"Format","value":"statement"},{"label":"Type","value":"Image"},{"label":"Extent","value":"2"},{"label":"Full Text","value":"September 13, 1965HAWAII SURFING ASSOCIATION ACTION INFORMATION ON MAGIC ISLAND SURFING SITESThe State Department of Land and Natural Resources has announced that bids will be opened this month for construction of the Central Island Phase of Magic Island.  Plans for this construction show a huge stone wall 11 feet high running from the present Magic Island peninsula for 2000 feet in the Kewalo direction.  It will have the following effects.--Surfers and their boards will be endangered.  The wall will be located in the surfboard recovery zone for approximately half the 20 surfing sites along Ala Moana.--During moderate to large surf, especially at high tide, strong backwash will be created further ruining the surfing sites.--The wall--which will be constructed similar to the Magic Island peninsula wall--will be unsafe if not impossible to climb.--The wall will prevent the normal flow of fresh ocean water into the deep Ala Moana swimming channel along the beach thus creating a strong probability of pollution.  The water in this swimming area is already opaque and warmer and less clean than reef water due to lack of circulation.--Thousands of local surfers will lose the use of the most popular and accessible surfing area along the South shore of Oahu except for Waikiki.  This will force the surfers back into already dangerously overcrowded Waikiki, adversely affecting Waikiki as a tourist area.BACKGROUND INFORMATIONThe Department of Land and Natural Resources promised the Save Our Surf Committee earlier this year that no construction would begin until a \"model study\" being conducted in Vicksburg, Mississippi, was completed.  SOS pointed out that it was doubtful that engineers in Mississippi would know what the requirements of a good surfing zone are--wave form, riding zone, board recovery, water depths, etc. Following this meeting, a letter was received by the Department of Land and Natural Resources from Vicksburg confirming SOS predictions; it stated that the engineers have insufficient information on surfing requirements.  The contents of this letter were communicated to SOS which offered to provide such information.  Now, according to the announced plans to proceed with construction, the Central Island Phase is to begin without the engineers availing themselves of the needed information about surfing requirements.--The area may be ruined by bureaucratic bungling and lack of active concern for the surfing community.--In spite of all efforts by SOS, no effort has been made by the Department of Land and -Natural Resources to determine the needs of the surfing area and how construction can be undertaken without destroying the surf ._________________________________________________________________Page 2---SOS has proposed pulling the wall back to the inner edge of the board recovery zone. No effort has been made by the engineers to determine where that zone exists.--SOS has proposed the construction of a \"wave trap\" or channelalong the outer area of the wall to cause waves to stop breaking and prevent boards and surfers from being thrown or carried onto the wall.  The Department refused to consider this feature \"for reasons of expense,\" in the light, as they said, of the temporary nature of the wall.  This is a reference to the fact that the wall is an interim phase in the overall long range Comprehensive Plan which will destroy completely all 20 sites from Ala Wai boat channel to Kewalo channel.--SOS also proposed the installation of steps or means that would enable surfers to have access to the surfing areas from the wall. This was rejected on the grounds that the Department wanted to discourage access to the sea in this area due to the dangers created by the wall.---When SOS first approached State officials on the dangers of the Magic Island development to surfing in the area we were told, \"We did not know the area was used for surfing,\" When SOS pointed out that on certain days the number of surfers out in the Ala Moana sites exceeded the number of bathers along the beach, the information was disbelieved.  SOS has since taken aerial photographs which show that the usage of the area is extremely heavy.  We estimate upward of 1500 surfers on a good summer day.--Ala Moana Park and adjacent swimming, diving and surfing areas belong to the people of Honolulu.  It is the only park with such facilities that can truly be said to service local residents and it is already crowded.  It is bounded on one side by city dumps and polluted waters of the raw sewage outflow and on the other by high density hotel beach frontage and tourists.  To ruin Ala Moana surfing areas would be to strike a serious blow at the rights to recreation by Honolulu's youth as well as to surfing in general which is a major tourist and visitor attraction to Hawaii.SOS AND THE OFFICERS OF THE HAWAII SURFING ASSOCIATION URGE ALL MEMBER CLUES TO ACT NOW TO SAFE THIS AREA.  WRITE GOVERNOR BURNS. VISIT THE STATE LEGISLATORS WHO CONTROL THE FINAL DECISIONS, ESPECIALLY LEGISLATORS ROBERT TAIRA, JAMES WAKATSUKI, JAMES SHIGEMURA, ROBERT OSHIRO AMD TADAO BEPPU,  LEGISLATORS ARE UNAWARE OF DETAILS OF PLANNING WHICH CONSTITUTE THE THREAT.  URGE THEM TO INSIST ON COMPROMISE PLANS WHICH WILL NOT BASICALLY INTERFERE WITH MAGIC ISLAND DEVELOPMENT BUT WHICH WILL SAVE THE SURF."}],"sequences":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31333/sequence/normal","@type":"sc:Sequence","label":"Current Page Order","viewingDirection":"left-to-right","viewingHint":"paged","canvases":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31333/canvas/p1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"117-963medium.jpg","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35732/full/129%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35732","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"width":2318,"height":3606,"images":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31333/annotation/p0001-image","@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35732/full/514%2C800/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":2318,"height":3606,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35732","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31333/canvas/p1"}]},{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31333/canvas/p2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"117-966medium.jpg","thumbnail":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35733/full/155%2C200/0/default.jpg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35733","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"width":2346,"height":3018,"images":[{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31333/annotation/p0002-image","@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35733/full/622%2C800/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","width":2346,"height":3018,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif-img/35733","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/iiif/31333/canvas/p2"}]}]}]}