title: US Open of Surfing
Vans
Pele Island
Dana Brown
Joe's Crab Shack
FCKH8
Surfest
Noosa Festival of Surfing
Red Bull Cape Fear
Fundoo-t
sentences: The U.S. Open of Surfing is a week-long surfing competition held annually during the summer in Huntington Beach, California.
 Generally held on the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier, the U.S. Open is part of the qualification process for the World Surf League and is a WSL QS 10,000 event.
 It is the largest surfing competition in the world.
 It has been owned by IMG since 2000.
Vans is an American manufacturer of skateboarding shoes, based in Costa Mesa, California, owned by VF Corporation.
 The company also produces apparel and other products such as T-shirts, hoodies, socks, hats, and backpacks.
 As of August 2013, the brand is also active in other actions sports industry and sponsors surf, snowboarding, BMX, and motocross teams.
 Since 1996, the company has also been the primary sponsor of the annual Vans Warped Tour traveling rock festival.
Pélé Island, sometimes spelled Pele in English, is a volcanic island located 11,2 miles north of the island of Éfaté in the Shefa Province of the Republic of Vanuatu.
 It has a total area of 1.7 square miles, Pélé is inhabited by about 200-220 Ni-Vanuatu villagers residing in the four villages: Worsiviu, Worearu, Piliura, and Launamoa.
 Pélé Island is a part of the MPA Nguna-Pele Marine Protected Area, which was established in 2003, and is a popular Vanuatuan diving location.
 The Nguna-Pele Marine Protected Area covers a total area of 11.5 sq. mi., including numerous reefs, sea grass beds, mangrove forests and intertidal lagoons.
 The Nguna-Pele Marine Protection Agency is located in the village of Piliura, and mounts an exhibition and sells T-shirts.
 Income from tourism is distributed by the Village Tourism Committee and supports aims as village water supply projects.
 The island can be visited daily by boat from the Paonangisu area by the town of Emua on Éfaté's north coast.
 There are also yachts available both from Emua and Nguna for day and overnight charters to the island.
 The island is nearly adjacent to the island of Nguna, with a small passage no deeper than 33 yards separating the two.
 It has a tropical climate and has a maximum elevation of 650 feet at its highest.
 Much of the island is extremely steep and rocks prevent you from walking along the coastline around the island.
 White sandy beaches are found in Piliura, Worearu, Laonamoa, and Sake.
 Overpopulation has led to a steady migration from Pele villages to southern Nguna in recent times.
Dana Brown (born December 11, 1959 in Dana Point, California) is an American surfer and filmmaker, and is the oldest son of filmmaker Bruce Brown.
 His films include "The Endless Summer Revisited" (2000) which is made up of unused footage from "The Endless Summer" (1964) and "The Endless Summer II" (1994), as well as some original interviews with the stars of those films.
 His first all-original film was "Step Into Liquid" (2003) followed by a documentary on the Baja 1000 titled "Dust to Glory" (2005).
 In 2009, he debuted a new film called "Highwater" during the 100th anniversary of the Santa Monica Pier; the film follows life on the North Shore and the surfers who compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing.
 In 2014, the movie "On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter" continues the saga of motocross documentaries which began with the 1972 Academy Award for Documentary Feature nominated film "On Any Sunday" (1971).
Joe's Crab Shack is an American chain of beach-themed seafood casual dining restaurants. Founded in Houston, Texas, the restaurant now operates locations all across the United States of America.
 It serves seafood and American cuisine.
 The restaurants also have a gift shop that sells T-shirts featuring phrases advertising Joe's seafood choices.
 It is based in Houston.
FCKH8 is a for-profit company that was founded in 2010, which sells t-shirts and accessories that features slogans endorsing the social activist causes of feminism, homophobia, and racism.
 The company has released several media marketing campaigns to accompany sales of their products, some of which have been the focus of criticism.
 FCKH8 has responded to this criticism by stating that their t-shirts could help spread awareness and spark conversations of the causes.
Surfest is an annual surfing competition held in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
 Surfest began in 1985 as an initiative of Newcastle City Council, and at the time, was the world's richest surfing competition.
 The event runs for thirteen days, and from the 2007 event, will be held at Merewether Beach, having been held between Newcastle Beach and South Newcastle Beach in the past.
The Noosa Festival of Surfing was established in 1992 at Noosa, Queensland by members of the "Noosa Malibu Club", as an amateur surfing competition called the "Noosa Malibu Classic".
 It allowed club members to invite friends to surf Noosa's right-hand point breaks and the event's popularity among competitive longboarders gave the club a chance to take the event to a higher level.
 In 1996 a professional division was introduced and prompted the name change to "The Noosa Festival of Surfing" (NFoS) in 1998.
 "The World Tandem Surfing Championships" were brought to Noosa in 1999 and Stand up paddle surfing was incorporated into the Festival in 2007 with live entertainment and fundraising auctions also being held.The festival is currently sponsored by Global Surf Industries and is maintained and managed by USM Events and commences with the traditional "Mixing of the Waters" ceremony led by Hawaiian waterman Brian Keaulana.
 The Noosa Festival of Surfing is an official Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Longboard rated event.
The Red Bull Cape Fear is a surfing competition held at a local Sydney break called Cape Fear, on the southern side of Botany Bay at Cape Solander.
 Known locally as 'Ours', it became the site of a Red Bull big wave surfing competition in August 2014 called Red Bull Cape Fear.
 Richie Vaculik competed against fellow local Evan Faulks.
 and Mark Mathews (surfer) and fellow professional surfer Ryan Hipwood organised the Red Bull Cape Fear event in August 2014.
Fundoo T(FT) is an internet-based ongoing t-shirt design competition targeting customers of 14+ who make up a world-wide community of graphic designers, artists,fashion designers and everyday t-shirt consumers.
 Fundoo-t sells t-shirts that are designed and voted into production by the customers that purchase them.
 FT is a tee-shirt brand “by the people, of the people and for the people”.

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 The U.S. Open of Surfing is a week-long surfing competition held annually during the summer in Huntington Beach, California.
 Generally held on the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier, the U.S. Open is part of the qualification process for the World Surf League and is a WSL QS 10,000 event.
 It is the largest surfing competition in the world.
 It has been owned by IMG since 2000. 

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 Vans is an American manufacturer of skateboarding shoes, based in Costa Mesa, California, owned by VF Corporation.
 The company also produces apparel and other products such as T-shirts, hoodies, socks, hats, and backpacks.
 As of August 2013, the brand is also active in other actions sports industry and sponsors surf, snowboarding, BMX, and motocross teams.
 Since 1996, the company has also been the primary sponsor of the annual Vans Warped Tour traveling rock festival. 

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 Dana Brown (born December 11, 1959 in Dana Point, California) is an American surfer and filmmaker, and is the oldest son of filmmaker Bruce Brown.
 His films include "The Endless Summer Revisited" (2000) which is made up of unused footage from "The Endless Summer" (1964) and "The Endless Summer II" (1994), as well as some original interviews with the stars of those films.
 His first all-original film was "Step Into Liquid" (2003) followed by a documentary on the Baja 1000 titled "Dust to Glory" (2005).
 In 2009, he debuted a new film called "Highwater" during the 100th anniversary of the Santa Monica Pier; the film follows life on the North Shore and the surfers who compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing.
 In 2014, the movie "On Any Sunday, The Next Chapter" continues the saga of motocross documentaries which began with the 1972 Academy Award for Documentary Feature nominated film "On Any Sunday" (1971). 

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 Joe's Crab Shack is an American chain of beach-themed seafood casual dining restaurants. Founded in Houston, Texas, the restaurant now operates locations all across the United States of America.
 It serves seafood and American cuisine.
 The restaurants also have a gift shop that sells T-shirts featuring phrases advertising Joe's seafood choices.
 It is based in Houston. 

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 FCKH8 is a for-profit company that was founded in 2010, which sells t-shirts and accessories that features slogans endorsing the social activist causes of feminism, homophobia, and racism.
 The company has released several media marketing campaigns to accompany sales of their products, some of which have been the focus of criticism.
 FCKH8 has responded to this criticism by stating that their t-shirts could help spread awareness and spark conversations of the causes. 

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 Surfest is an annual surfing competition held in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
 Surfest began in 1985 as an initiative of Newcastle City Council, and at the time, was the world's richest surfing competition.
 The event runs for thirteen days, and from the 2007 event, will be held at Merewether Beach, having been held between Newcastle Beach and South Newcastle Beach in the past. 

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 The Noosa Festival of Surfing was established in 1992 at Noosa, Queensland by members of the "Noosa Malibu Club", as an amateur surfing competition called the "Noosa Malibu Classic".
 It allowed club members to invite friends to surf Noosa's right-hand point breaks and the event's popularity among competitive longboarders gave the club a chance to take the event to a higher level.
 In 1996 a professional division was introduced and prompted the name change to "The Noosa Festival of Surfing" (NFoS) in 1998.
 "The World Tandem Surfing Championships" were brought to Noosa in 1999 and Stand up paddle surfing was incorporated into the Festival in 2007 with live entertainment and fundraising auctions also being held.The festival is currently sponsored by Global Surf Industries and is maintained and managed by USM Events and commences with the traditional "Mixing of the Waters" ceremony led by Hawaiian waterman Brian Keaulana.
 The Noosa Festival of Surfing is an official Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Longboard rated event. 

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 Fundoo T(FT) is an internet-based ongoing t-shirt design competition targeting customers of 14+ who make up a world-wide community of graphic designers, artists,fashion designers and everyday t-shirt consumers.
 Fundoo-t sells t-shirts that are designed and voted into production by the customers that purchase them.
 FT is a tee-shirt brand “by the people, of the people and for the people”. 

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Answer: Vans