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On a calm afternoon last week on Monterey Bay, a kayaker with a drone camera looked at his viewing screen and saw the silhouettes of two great white sharks alongside him.

“From my kayak, I looked down into the water and couldn’t see them,” said Giancarlo Thomae. “I realized right then how many times over the years great white sharks may have looked up my kayak without me knowing it.”

From a helicopter last week, Thomae counted 25 great white sharks along the inshore waters of Monterey Bay   …  More

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“If it is love that binds people to places in this nation of rivers and in this river of nations then one enduring expression of that simple truth, is surely the canoe.”

This film captures the human connection and bond created by Canada’s well-known craft & symbol, the canoe. Through the stories of five paddlers across the province of Ontario, Canada – a majestic background both in it’s landscape & history – the film underscores the strength of the human spirit and how the canoe can be a vessel for creating deep and meaningful connections.

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While there is an increased population of juvenile great white sharks, Christopher G. Lowe, PhD, a professor of marine biology at California State University, Long Beach, and director of the Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab, has been insisting that we

2017 has certainly been the year of the shark so far in Southern California. From an attack to daily sightings to feeding frenzies to people giving all kinds of possible reasons for the influx of sharks, it feels like shark mania is on everybody’s minds   …  More

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Three years ago, a crew of sailors set off from Hawaii aboard a replica Polynesian canoe to travel the world. They would forsake GPS and other modern technology, and instead navigate by the stars and the sun as their ancestors did. Their mission: to encourage communities to create a more sustainable world.

Now, the canoe that stopped in 23 countries will return in mid-June to Oahu where   …  More

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