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Seal Slaps The Bejesus Out Of Kayaker With Live OctopusThere you are, in your boat, kayaking, in the water, in New Zealand or whatever. Here it comes, a seal! Or is it a sea lion? Does this matter? More on that later. What does it have in its—oh. It’s an octopus! What......

Kayaker Admits To Spiking Rival's Drink With SteroidsJapanese kayaker Yasuhiro Suzuki was expected to represent his country at the 2020 Olympics, but he will no longer be doing that after admitting to dosing one of his rivals, Seiji Komatsu, with anabolic steroids....

How I Accidentally Made The First Official Cuba-To-Florida Kayak CrossingThe shortest distance from Cuba to the United States is about 90 miles across the Florida Strait. By the standards of human-powered sea travel, it’s extremely doable, and it has been done for decades by refugees aboard the most makeshift of watercraft, driven by desperation. In the peak years, tens ...

Gale-Force Kayaking

From the Atlantic, here's a compelling 1995 story by Andrew Todhunter:...

Damn Nature, You Majestic: Kayaker Gets A Visit From A Blue Whale

A kayaker off of Los Angeles's Redondo Beach came prow to rostrum with nature's gentle giant, the blue whale. Kayaking is a sport, and my first grade teacher Mr. Moy gave me an unhealthy love of whales, so here it is....

I'll Just Drift With The Current For Awhile. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

In the most foolhardy boating stunt since the canoe scene in Last of the Mohicans, a guy named Pedro drops a world record 127 feet over a waterfall in a kayak in Brazil. [Daily Mail]...