One thousand six hundred years ago, when Paris was still a mudhole, Christianity was just starting to catch on and the Mayan and Incan empires in The Americas were beginning to peak, Polynesians and Hawaiians were riding waves from pieces of tree trunks and each “board” measured about five meters long. The first surfboards were [...]

As surfing became popular as a sport in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it also evolved into a youthful lifestyle that included fast cars, parties at the beach, and its own language. Every new culture develops its own soundtrack as well and Southern Californian musicians were there to provide it for the burgeoning surf [...]

Surfing in Maldives – an exhilarating experience
By: Pushpitha Wijesinghe

The Maldives is a location for travelers who want to completely escape the regularity of everyday life and sink in to a leisurely period where the world slows down enabling you to enjoy everything from a hot cup of tea to a morning on the beach. The [...]

My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the
 American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world’s most experienced
 rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an
 earthquake.
 
 I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from
 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am [...]