Wednesday April 6th Margaret River WA - Ten time World Surfing champion Kelly Slater survived a nerve wracking opening round heat win at the Telstra Drug Aware Pro in Margaret River today.<br /><br /><br />Slater had not surfed Margaret River since 1993 as a 21 year old and in today’s heat he appeared to spend a lot of time trying to re familiarize himself with the break.<br /><br /><br />25 minutes into the 30 minute heat Slater was in 3rd place staring at elimination behind 20 year old New Zealand surfer Billy Stairmand when he finally found a medium sized wave, weaved some Slater magic to post a 6.5 score take the win by just 0.36 of a point.
