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The marine biologist has done things in the ocean that would scare most people senseless. She's been alone in total darkness thousands of feet down, hovered under a Russian ship as it pinged her submarine, and been charged by huge sharks. But one thing does frighten her: the dire state of our overfished and polluted seas, something she spends every waking hour trying to change.

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Build your own surfboard, then jump in the water to test it at this Maine-based workshop

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Take care of the two things that support you wherever you go—and endure the most abuse

Presenting the best trips in one of the hemisphere's hottest travel regions.

Who needs a whole quiver when one set of planks does it all?

If a skier hucks without uploading a photo, does anybody see it? A road trip through the exploding business side of Instagram, where pro athletes roam Alberta stalking the next big trophy shot.

What goes up fast comes down happy

Escape San Francisco to play in the booming East Bay

A Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist and a Harvard neurobiologist think they’ve discovered the antidote

This month, a tiny Colorado startup will attempt a bold rescue of the nation’s mountain towns while reinventing waterproof-breathable fabrics. How? With this super-comfy hoody.

The rules: Pilot a boat 750 miles from Port Townsend, Washington, to Ketchikan, Alaska—no motors allowed. The prize: $10,000 nailed to a piece of wood. The result: Seven capsizings, four lifesaving Big Macs, one dramatic coast guard rescue, and a cast of oddball adventurers who reclaimed the salty heart of ocean racing.