Surfing Santas catch waves on Christmas Eve
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More than 6000 people showed up to watch hundreds of surfing Santas take to the waves in Cocoa Beach, Fla., Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, at the end of Minutemen Causeway for the 7th Surfing Santas of Cocoa Beach. The event raises money for Grind for Life. The event has grown since George Trosset and his son George and daughter-in-law Britteny went surfing in Santa, snowman and elf costumes seven years ago in 2009. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today)
COCOA BEACH, Fla. >> Hundreds of surfers dressed as Santa caught the waves and celebrated on the shore in what has evolved into an annual tradition at Florida’s Cocoa Beach.
Organizers of the seventh annual Surfing Santa event say they distributed 500 wristbands today for surfers who wanted to ride the waves dressed as St. Nick.
A singer with a ukulele led hundreds of people in singing Christmas carols, and some Santas glided onto the beach, about 60 miles east of Orlando, via parachutes.
The event was started by George Trosset seven years ago from his beach house. It got so big the event was moved to the public beach.
Trosset says one of his goals is to get in the Guinness Book of Records for holding the biggest surfing Santa event.
