THESE days when the surf’s up and the crowds are huge, all the action is out in the line-up at The Pass at Byron Bay.
But there was a time in the late 1980s and early 1990s when there was more happening out of the water than in it at the world-famous surf break.
The community consultation process that led in late 2007 to new six-year licences being offered to the Byron Bay Dive Centre and Sundive and a cap set on the number of daily launches was a far cry from those turbulent days that became known as ‘Battle of The Pass’.