On April 21, 2010, Dr. Benjamin LaBrot, his sister Sky LaBrot, and their crew left the United States and sailed for Haiti on the 76-foot-long Southern Wind, a sailboat they retrofitted into a floating hospital that can carry eight tons of medical supplies and 20 doctors. Their mission: To deliver m...

This week, Dutch sailor Laura Dekker sailed into port on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles and became the youngest person ever to solo circumnavigate the globe. She had been at sea on and off for a little more than a year. Dekker first began sailing alone at the age of [.....

Last week, the fight for the title of world's best surfer continued in the Billabong Pro Tahiti. No surprise to anyone familiar with the competition, the fifth of eleven events in the 2011 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Title was dominated by Kelly Slater. Slater is one of the big...

These days, traveling by water isn't a common feature of our lives, and so, for most of us, even just sailing out of sight of land is pretty extreme. No matter what size boat you're on, the ocean is still huge and powerful in comparison, and the thought of being on a sailing ship in [...]

Sending the brave off vertical drops into water swirling wildly around rocks, with little more than a paddle, whitewater rafting more than earns its place among other extreme sports,. And in case you're not convinced, here are four wild videos from some of the world's best rafting spots. So get rea...

The Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards, 2012 edition, are coming up on May 4, and the nominees have been released. The classic categories are there: biggest wave, monster tube, best performance, but the most fun may be the Verizon Wipeout Award. Because for every masterful ride, there's one that ...