Professional surfer Will Skudin of New York survived one of the more brutal wipeouts of the Nazare Challenge, a big-wave contest held Friday by the World Surf League in Portugal. The Long Beach native was “unable to set his stance” on the big wave during Round 1 of the (…)
ATV’s, Side by Sides and other off road machines are some of the most most fun you can have in the outdoors. But what if I told you that you can find one of the best riding experiences and some of the best modifications to the Polaris RZR and other Polaris machines are (…)
At a time when many animal species are inching closer to extinction, at least two threatened species are on the rebound. Fin whales, once hunted to the brink of extinction, have been upgraded from Endangered to Vulnerable, according to a report published this week by the (…)
Anna Gasser, a decorated Austrian snowboarder, produced another milestone in women’s snowboarding Tuesday when the Olympic gold medalist became the first female to land a triple cork. Training on her home turf of Stubai Glacier during a four-week camp for pro (…)
Distance swimmers in the annual Swim the Loop competition in North Carolina were trying to focus on their strokes Saturday when cries of “Shark!” filed the air. Concern was understandable. A large dorsal fin sliced across the surface of the Intracoastal Waterway, near a (…)
A British angler on holiday in Hungary has caught a massive carp that placed him in rare company among his countrymen. The 102-pound mirror carp, which Luke Vanes described as “a bit of a creature – a monster,” was weighed in a sling and released after its capture last (…)
Kayak fisherman Bryan Machado had a line in the water and his feet hanging over the sides “as I normally do” when what officials believe was a great white shark bit into the side of his kayak. “It was terrifying,” he told North Coast Courier. “All I remember (…)
