This year's Search event being held by Rip Curl will take place in San Francisco. The company has had a floating event, licensed by the Association of Surfing Professionals, designed to draw the world's best surfers to a beach that has never had a competitive event. This year's event is being held from Nov. 1-11 at Ocean Beach; previous Searches have taken place in Reunion Island, Mexico, Chile, Bali, Portugal and Puerto Rico. The move to San Francisco follows other events that have taken place in urban locations, such as Billabong's Brazilian event heading to Rio and Quiksilver's new event in New York.

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