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Return of the Pirates
Just off coastlines around the world, a new war is being raged. Seafarers are witnessing the return of a threat many believed to have vanished long ago—piracy. Today’s pirate is organized, political, and agile. To [...]
Islands in the Stream
In the beginning there was the legendary Bruce Brown and he blessed us with The Endless Summer. Next, with his son Dana, he awed us with The Endless Summer II. Then Dana, with his own [...]
The Endless Summer Revisited
It sounds so simple, yet in 1966 a young filmmaker named Bruce Brown captured the essence of a sport as never before. To stand atop a crescendo of water, to ride on nature’s all powerful [...]
Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces
On a cold night in April 1912, over 1,500 people aboard the RMS Titanic lost their lives to the merciless waters of the North Atlantic. More than ninety years after the fateful event, several questions [...]
Renewable Energy
In the young 21st Century, two realizations are dawning on the world’s population: we are hopelessly dependent on petroleum, which is only going to get more expensive; and global warming, caused mainly by our burning [...]
Okinawa: The Final Battle
The war in the Pacific was long and bloody, and when the final battle came, it was perhaps the fiercest of all. At Okinawa, over 250,000 people fought a desperate battle for control of the [...]
Bible Tech
Arguably the most influential book ever written, the Bible provides a glimpse into the origins of ancient technology and its use to withstand the elements, build great structures, wage war, and conserve precious water. We [...]
