Reverse image search puts this in Yemen, Shabwah District, 2002. Source is @surfjournalist. Seems like dude just really wanted to surf the Yemeni coast post-9/11.
The surfer is Chas Smith. A surfer / journalist who decided to surf across Yemen during the Chad war to document both sides in search of the origins of Al Quaeda with some other surfer friends.
You could recreate this sort of shot today in all sorts of countries. If its an internal conflict in a mainly brown skin country, then nobody sees some white tourist as a threat.
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jrs100000@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 1y
Is the CIA just picking their covers out of a hat now?
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
They watched Point Break one too many times.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
No such thing
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Unless it's the remake.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Great documentary
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Always gmhave been.
tiktoklik@quokk.au · 1 pts · 1y
DesolateMood@lemmy.zip · 62 pts · 1y
I honestly think this is my favorite greentext of all time
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 40 pts · 1y
Dexter Holland from The Offspring takes a ride on the back of a Libyan Freedom Fighter's truck to go surfing.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
Chas Smith of Surfing takes a ride in the back of a Yemeni (police?) truck to go surfing.*
But yee.
https://www.amazon.com/Reports-Hell-Chas-Smith/dp/1665178574
tiktoklik@quokk.au · 31 pts · 1y
End of the Chad–Libyan war colorised.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
"If I say it's safe to surf this beach, it's safe to surf this beach!"
Thteven@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
You smell that? It smells like...freedom.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 1y
Found it.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 57 pts · 1y
so we don't have to click the R🤮DD!T link
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 1y
You could recreate this sort of shot today in all sorts of countries. If its an internal conflict in a mainly brown skin country, then nobody sees some white tourist as a threat.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
I mean, a civil war still is a war, with all the cloak-and-dagger stuff, collateral damage and desperate people
OwlPaste@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The hero we need! 🤩😍
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
lonk me daddy
RockBottom@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y
Divide and conquer means there's always a tribe you're save with.
capuccino@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
some metal slug shit
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y