Is surfing OK during coronavirus order to keep your distance from others? How surfers are adapting

Keep your social distance, bro! Tom Cozad, of Newport Beach, tries to keep a surfer from dropping in. (Photo by Laylan Connelly/SCNG)
It’s an aquatic exercise done in the vast ocean, where you can find solitude in the sea.
But when a swell hits, dueling surfers paddle close to one another to battle for peaks and often crowd together on their boards waiting for the next wave to roll in.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order Thursday, March 19, for people to stay at home unless it is essential the