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Video: Big Wave Surfer Ken "Skin Dog" Collins Fights with NOAA Enforcers

The fight between surfers who want to use jet skis to save lives in rough conditions and enforcement police from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is heating up.

This video shows surfer Ken Collins lashing out at NOAA enforcement officers at Mavericks.

Officers from this federal agency  filming the movie "Of Men and Mavericks" and two other surfers last year who were practicing for Mavericks at Moss Landing.

While boats with the exact engines are allowed, jet skis are forbidden, despite no scientific evidence in NOAA's filings that prove the skis are dangerous to marine mammals.

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That is one of the grounds surfers are fighting the agency over.

Just for choosing to fight the fine in court, , and threatened the possibility of raising it as high as $120,000.

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Movie star Gerard Butler was held down by a wave and had to be rescued at Maverick's during the movie's filming.

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