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Taking a dip in the icy waters off Santa Cruz or Capitola, you may not realize what’s lurking beneath. But from the air, it becomes clear.

KPIX video from a helicopter above the area reveals great white shark after great white shark wiggling through the water. The animals have been seen in greater numbers in recent months; some swimmers and surfers have reported close calls.

Helicopter pilot Chris Gularte told the news station the sharks have   …  More

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Big wave surfer Frank Solomon finds an underground community of surfers in the place you’d least expect: Johannesburg – South Africa.

For anyone that has cruised the streets of Johannesburg, the site of the city’s ‘street surfers’ is as much a part of the landscape as is that of the high rise metropolitan skyline.

Frank Solomon, a big wave surfer and marine activist from Cape Town South Africa, travels to meet two exceptional men, Thabo and Mokete, who indirectly serve the environment through recycling as a means of income. This is the untold story of new friendships, shared experiences and common interest between individuals that are worlds apart.

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Peter Fonda knows the precise moment he dreamt up the idea for Easy Rider, the groundbreaking biker drama that helped rev up an American filmmaking movement when it was released in theaters 50 years ago on July 14, 1969.

The actor, now 79, was attending a film exhibition convention in Canada on Sept. 26, 1967 to promote his new LSD-fueled Roger Corman-Jack Nicholson film The Trip. Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) who was quickly developing a reputation as “morals watchdog” as   …  More

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A time bomb is ticking for a huge swath of the boating public — the generation that ranges 35 and younger — that will be required, starting Jan. 1, to have a California Boaters Card before operating a boat.

Over the weekend at Shasta Lake, California’s No. 1 recreation lake, sheriffs on boat patrols were handing out a safety booklet with the test in the back, provided free from the Division of Boating and Waterways.

“Families are   …  More

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