A woman on a surfboard and two people aboard a kayak were nearly engulfed by a humpback whale that charged out of the water, its mouth agape, just a few feet away. Barb Roettger’s video of the amazing encounter, which occurred near Santa Cruz, Calif., was posted Wednesday. The incident is one of several recent close calls in the area, where a small pod of humpback whales has been surface lunge-feeding on anchovies unusually close to shore  … More
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The 2011 Hobie 16 and Hobie 20 North American Championships are now underway in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida with an international fifty-nine strong fleet of teams from four countries.
Day one saw winds from five to ten knots that faded as the day went on and moderate waves. The waves were actually bigger than the wind  … More
For America’s war wounded, leaving the hospital is often just the start of a long recovery.
CBS News correspondent Chip Reid reports that some veterans are making remarkable progress, thanks to volunteers who get them to focus on what they can do, instead of what they can’t do.
On the Potomac River just outside Washington, D.C., two kayakers were in search of the adrenalin rush that comes from surfing a white water wave  … Video and more
A kayak race in Nanchang, located in the Chinese province of Jiangxi, turned violent last week when two teams came to blows while still out on the water. The brawl broke out when one team intentionally rammed its boat into the other, causing both squads to start swinging their paddles at one another.
The fight took place during  … More