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4 days agoSurf's up again on Munich river after choppy year
Munich reopened the Eisbach river wave for surfing under safety conditions after it vanished and was temporarily closed following a fatal incident.
The Eisbach wave on a side branch of the Isar river had been a landmark in the Bavarian city since the 1980s but it vanished in October after annual cleanup work along the riverbed. Activists had placed a beam in the water early on 25 December to partially recreate the wave, according to German media reports, and hung a banner above the water that read Merry Christmas.