Probably the worst drag boat crash of all time. The boat’s survival capsule flies about sixty feet in the air before landing hard on the island beside the water
This is the moment a daredevil surfer risked his life to take on Britain’s biggest wave – a giant 40ft wall of water nicknamed the “widow maker”.
Ben Skinner, 24, rode the huge swell which is caused when a combination of tides and offshore winds hit the coast of Cornwall.
The wave – known as The Cribbar – is created as water passes over a rocky shelf half a mile offshore at Fistral Beach in Newquay.
Surfers had waited for days for … Details
After a long and dusty season in the desert, Christy Racing wrapped up the SCORE International Class 24 and Overall Pro ATV titles with a determined ride at the final event of 2009, the Baja 1000. With wins at the San Felipe 250 and the Baja 500 earlier in the year, the team needed only to complete the 1000 to clinch the 450 class championship. But the overall title was still up for grabs, depending on the outcome of the race. The Baja 1000 win was out of reach for the Christy’s team this time (they won in 2008), but a strong third place finish was enough to take series overall honors by a narrow four point margin.
Led by team owner Craig Christy … Details
Do a little snorkeling in Mexico, and you’ll soon be wracked with envy whenever you have to share a boat with a pack of scuba divers. I came down with this affliction several years ago on Baja’s East Cape and got so far as to complete the course work, but I was grounded by a hurricane that brushed the coast before I ever hoisted a tank. Since then, my travels have taken me most often to the Yucatán Peninsula, where the warm Caribbean’s aqua, teal and indigo striations and hallucinatory clarity have piqued memory of that lost opportunity into a gentle obsession.
Mexico’s Caribbean coast is … Details