LouAnne Harris Does It!! Completes SUP Expedition Down the Mississippi!
Harris Completes SUP Expedition of the Mississippi Expedition paddler, one half of the Atlantic Sup’r Girls and SIC Maui paddler LouAnne Harris became the first…
Category: Environment
Starboard reached its POP Goal by collecting 47 Tonnes (96,000 lbs) of trash
The goal was to retrieve 43,000 kg of trash in one year. Just in time the team hit the target and turned the pilot program…
Kayak Tour, Civil Trial to Focus on Formosa Plastics’ Pollution of Texas Waterways
Citizen-activists who exposed Formosa Plastics’ rampant pollution of Texas waterways with plastic pellets and debris and will lead a kayak tour to its Point Comfort…
Public Water Access Upheld in Great Lakes in Key Court Victory
We came across some great news on the wire yesterday out of Detroit. U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Great Lakes beach access case A…
GoFundMe Set up to Help Kauai Flood Victims
Laird and Gabby Help Kauai Flood Victims News of the recent flooding on the Hawaiian island of Kauai reached an apex in the paddling world…
Standup Paddler Bumped off board, bitten by Shark in Hawaii
Paddleboarder Bitten off the Big Island This story has been making the rounds this weekend from the Big Island of Hawaii….the beach where it happened…
Stop the Virginia Key Mooring Field: Water Access Alert
Water access is a huge issue for the Distressed Mullet and all our water people. We got this alert this morning from one of our…
Cape Cod Great White Sightings Prompt Myriad of Responses
Cape Cod Shark Sightings Two days ago we posted about a SUP paddler who’s board was bitten by a Great White Shark off the coast…
Great White Shark Bites SUP in Cape Cod
SUP Board Bitten by Great White Shark More details on the shark bite in New England from NECN News… the paddler was not hurt by…
SUPKids Partners with Green Surf Festival in Italy
Editor’s Note: SUPKids is an innovative program, in collaboration with Starboard, that teaches kids water safety and environmental awareness, in hopes of creating experiences that…
Landlords, Lots of Landlords, Showing up in Southern Cal
Great Whites in SoCal Honestly, not sure what would be more startling, seeing so many great white sharks while paddleboarding, or being “hailed” from above…
Environment: Paddlers Enlisted to Help Clean up Arizona River
Paddling to protect Arizona’s wild places We love this! Keep It Wild Co. a tee shirt and sticker company dedicated to helping to protect Arizona’s wild…
ISA collaborates to make the 2016 Fiji World Championship Deep Blue
Editor’s Note: A Deep Blue Event is kind of like LEED certification for buildings- but instead of applying to new construction that is rated based…
An Awareness Raising Effort on the Ganges Could Set a World Record
Seeing a standup paddler on many rivers in the US or even Europe might not be that big of a thing these days, but on…
Gone Paddling Expedition Update: Tomahawk and Lake Mohawksin
Earlier this week we told you about filmmaker Jesse Hieb’s 430-mile self-supported paddle down the Wisconsin River. He is raising awareness of water quality revitalization…
430 Miles Down the Wisconsin River to tell a “Good News Story”
When I talked via smartphone to Jesse Hieb, he had only been off the Wisconsin River for about an hour or so, after a full…
A New Perspective: Kialoa ‘Elele Evelyn O’Doherty Featured in Nature Conservancy Video
Stand up. Speak UP. Act NOW. The Nature Conservancy recently released a mini-series documenting the decline in water quality on Long Island. Water girl Evelyn…
Starboard & SUPKids teaching kids how to take care of their planet
This World Oceans Day sees the official launch of SUPKids, an educational program for 5-12 year olds designed to teach kids SUP, water safety &…
Plastic Tides Movie Premier in Wilmington, NC tonight!
7pm Thurs Apr. 28th, Ironclad Brewery, Wilmington, NC https://www.facebook.com/events/552549748247102/ Two men. Two SUPs. Ten days. 240 miles. The Plastic Tides team launched on November 9th…
Massive fish kill in Florida, waterways under attack
Banana River and Merritt Island suffers unprecedented fishkill from a brown algae bloom. Florida Today reports,”Thousands of fish have died in the Indian River Lagoon…
Help needed for Florida’s Manatees, Meeting in Orlando this Saturday
From Evey Hammond: I know there are a lot of paddlers who love to come to Florida just to paddle with our precious wildlife and…
URGENT! Cold-stunned Sea Turtles Need Your Help Now!
The sudden arrival of winter weather this week along the North Carolina coast led to a record number of cold-stunned sea turtles needing rescue and…
Juvenile Great White Shark washes up on Wrightsville Beach
This morning at around 11am EST, a 8 foot, approximately 500lb great white shark was found washed ashore on the south end of Wrightsville Beach.…
Paddleboard RESCUE of 1500 in India: SUPs used to reach inaccessible flood areas
Paddleboard RESCUE: 1500 people rescued in Chennai, India by accessing the inaccessible flood areas on a sup for rescue and are offering FREE RESCUE TRAINING:…
A quick “what’s going on” as Carolinas endure for historic flooding
This has been a devastating weather week. Hurricane Juaquin began as an upper level low pressure system with some showers and thunderstorms over the warm Atlantic, and developed into…