As well as Marc's link to Gilles Tran's page, I would recommend Christoph
Hormann's discussion of realistic water at
http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/pov/water/index.html.

If you meant by 'surf' the interaction of water and land, the only things I
can think of are a change in the shape of the waves (higher and narrower?)
and a change of texture to a white, non-reflective texture near the
coastline as the water gets shallower. It's pretty difficult to model this
accurately though I think.

-Chris

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