Faced with this awesome waterfall, most of us would be happy to stand at the side and enjoy the view.
For one man, however, that wasn’t enough. Pedro Olivia risked his life by jumping into his kayak, paddling straight over the edge – and dropping an astonishing 127 feet off the Salto Belo falls in central Brazil.
He fell head first for 2.95 seconds before hitting the churning waters below at 70mph…. Details, Pictures and Video
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As the South Atlantic weather systems ripple in a wave across the fleet from west to east, the effect is compressing the four Portimão Global Ocean Race boats as a barrier of light wind now grips the two race leaders, Desafio Cabo de Hornos and Beluga Racer.
To the south-west, and further towards the coast of South America, Team Mowgli and Roaring Forty have stayed with stronger breeze, but the high pressure system blocking the route will halt their progress later today. … More Details
Hokule’a crew is back home, reflecting on life-changing experience
There’s no telling what sort of assumed truths may suddenly become self-evident when you’re at the helm of a voyaging canoe in the middle of the Pacific.
For 31-year-old Kaimuki resident Angela Fa’anunu, it was this: The world is round.
Fa’anunu was one of a dozen crew members who guided the voyaging canoe’s Hokule’a on its 1,000-mile journey south to Palmyra Atoll last week.
After flying back to Honolulu on Saturday, she and …Â Details
Museum’s double-hull koa canoe is more than 100 years old
The double-hull canoe’s size is not very impressive.
“Medium small,” Junior Coleman said yesterday, not bothering to look up as he went about his work in Bishop Museum’s Hawaiian Hall. “A coastal canoe, maybe interisland on a good day.”
But the gleaming 20-foot, solid koa vessel is more than 100 years old, a treasure of Hawaiian heritage.
It could skim the ocean at about 10 knots, Coleman said, with 180- to 200- square feet of sail, although it probably has never taken the waters…. Details
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